My daughter told me her car was not pulling right when she was driving. I went to check the tranny fluid and with the engine running, in neutral, I pulled the dip stick and tranny fluid shot abou 20 feet across the drive. Could filter be stopped up or is tranny needing major repairs?

Thanks for any feedback.
Osduck5

 

theres a vent on the top of the trans if it clogs it can cause fluid to come up the dipstick

 

Thanks, I will try to check that and see if it is clogged.

 

Pull the dipstick, and check if the fluid smells burnt. Then dab the fluid on a clean paper towel and see what color it is. If her trans is slipping (could be the cause of it "not pulling right"), then it's building up some excessive heat, which makes the trans fluid expand more than normal. Let's hope it's the vent causing the burp, but that wouldn't explain her car "not pulling right".

 

I haven't had time to crawl up under there to cheeck the vent tube but the tranny fluid smells burnt and is more brown than red. I ask her how long she had been driving it like that and she said about a month! As bad as I hate to, I may just sell the car, 6K miles on rebuilt engine, new tires! Imagine that. She now has a child and says its to hard getting car seats in and out.

 

Been doing that for about a month.... sounds a lot like the kind of helpful feedback I get from my kids too. You'd have to take the car for a test drive yourself. If the rpm's go way up, but the car isn't moving forward accordingly, the trans is slipping. For what it's worth, a buddy of mine had an old Olds that had a badly slipping trans, and he was using the Lucas anti-slip additive. That stuff actually stopped the slipping quite well, and bought him a ton more miles. When it would start to slip again, he'd tap some fluid out of the trans and put in some more additive. I wouldn't be surprised if he was at 50% Lucas by the time he sold the car!

 

i used lucas in my blazer the trans was slipping real bad. i put some lucas in and it want away and just like your buddy if it started slipping again id just suck some fluid out and add another qt of lucas i drove like that for 3 mths than sold the truck

 

My buddy was doing that for like 2 years. I'd roll my eyes every time he told me he gave the trans another treatment, but hey, it bought him quite a lot of time with his beater.
If it was mine, I would have put that car out of it's misery long ago, but that's another story!

 

I may try some of that stuff to see what happens.

It must work. I bought a high top conversion van once, put almost 4k on it before the tranny went. While working on it, I found an empty bottle of that stuck down in the fender! LOL I was less than pleased! LOL

Thanks for the input.

 

They call that a "SURPRISE"!! lol