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transmission shifts bad when warm

BillBoost37 said:
I call BS. Regal has 160K miles on the original fluid and filter. I swapped it out and it ran awesome. I drove that trans for another 33K miles before misdiagnosing it and swapping it out. Then ... I had to fix the problem. :th_winking:
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what you getting at? and wheres the BS you smell? check your feet yet? lmao

you didnt flush it, you did a pan drop at 160,000.
 


BillBoost37 said:
I call BS. Regal has 160K miles on the original fluid and filter. I swapped it out and it ran awesome. I drove that trans for another 33K miles before misdiagnosing it and swapping it out. Then ... I had to fix the problem. :th_winking:
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Thanks for the real world input Bill. My car has 155k with unknown maintenance history. I was hem-hawing about doing a pan drop for a shift kit install for these same reasons. I feel a little better about it now.
 
BrandonHall10 said:
Thanks for the real world input Bill. My car has 155k with unknown maintenance history. I was hem-hawing about doing a pan drop for a shift kit install for these same reasons. I feel a little better about it now.
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that pan drop deepens on your fluid condition. if its still red/pinkish have at, burnt up and dark looking, it may not survive. a flush will kill a tranny that has burnt up fluid, as the clutch material floating in the fluid is all thats keeping it alive. swap that fluid and its dead. asap. like it wont move when your done.

seen it happen a lot at a friends jiffy lube. he makes them sign a waver cause he dont recommend the flush, they say i want it done, then they call him a tow truck lol
 
Flush, no. Change fluid, yes.

OP, get a shift kit installed. If she is warm in the summer, get a cooler installed. This will band-aid the tranny until the next major failure happens.
 
A flush or pan drop does not hurt a trans in decent shape. The only changes that happen when you change fluid is you remove the microscopic pieces of clutch material that get through the filters (main, and the couple in the CP/VB spacer) and you freshed up the detergents in the system. That's it. You don't magically change the piston travel to engage a gear or anything else.

If the only thing keeping your trans working is the dirty fluid.. well then the change didn't kill the trans, the trans was nearly gone and would have puked soon.
 
I pulled black fluid out of the Regal trans. It was cooked, full of crap and nasty. I did a pan drop and then another soon after. Fluid looked new and fresh when I was done.
 


Im just gonna throw a bottle of lucas in there. Maybe head down to a local shop and see what they suggest, either leaving it alone or doing a pan drop
 
id not do a fluid change, if its slipping warm the fluid gets thinner when warm. new fluid wont fix this.


fluid change will never "fix" anything you feel wrong with the tranny.

only a good working trans should get a fluid change of any kind.


in bills case, his trans was working properly still.
 
Pontiac Racer said:
Ok. So pretty much if you feel your tranny starting to crap out its game over?
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not always, ( could be a solenoid or something) but a fluid change will never fix a problem.

see if the trans shop will scan the car driving it, they can see what its doing and tell you if its clutches or something else.

typically if you get moving, then hold the brakes some while flooring it, if its slipping you'll feel it slipping.

get it scanned too, codes get stored in history and show pending. it maybe there just has not set the cel yet.
 
i just bought the lucas stuff and will be adding it sometime soon. if that doesn't fix it ill take it in and see if its electrical issues
 


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