1g AUTO tranny. Car wont go into gear

[apedog]

So heres my problem.
I developed a huge tranny leak the other day, the green metal boot on the transmission on the passenger side where the axle sits in started to come out. All of the bolts were gone. I have no idea what happened there but I had another tranny on hand so I just put the bolts back in and no tranny leak.
I admit I did drive it low on fluid a decent amount of times just because it is my daily and I cant really have a transmission fluid on me at all times. I know stupid.

But before that at least it went into gear. Now I fill the tranny up with fluid to the correct amount in neutral to the hot line when the car was warm. I get back in and no gears whatsoever. It will go sometimes but you have to rev it to go just a little bit. Like to 4k just to get it to move. It was also making this weird buzzing noise too after I put fluid in it which I thought was strange.

Is there a pump in the tranny? And if there is do you have to take off the transmission to get to it?

Im a newb at auto trans so I dont really know what the limits are

 

[Chill Kill Kult]

the level could have gone down far enough to drain oil from the torque convertor, meaning it takes time to get oil back into it. possibly running dry could have caused one of the little ball bearings in the valve body to be stuck. I've never worked on a dsm's auto though, really only GM trannys. I could say to let it run for 5 minutes or so and keep re-checking the level. Someone else may have more insight.

 

[GDNF2ET]

If you remove the transmission, and slide off the torque converter, you would be looking at the pump....
It still sounds like your low on fluid.I'm not happy with the level unless I check it at least 5 times...Good luck

 

[blackrosenova40]

The little balls are check balls to keep air out of the fluid passages, they really cant get stuck.

Sounds like either low fluid level, pump is bad causing low main pressure, or you have a fried/slipping clutch.

 

[apedog]

Its definitely not low on fluid. Im pretty sure the clutches are fried because sometimes it will go a little bit but it will stop moving. So I guess new tranny it is

Actually what about torque converter?? What are the symtoms of it failing?