RallyEclipse98
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- Jul 31, 2007
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Dallas,
Texas
Story time…
It was a few days before Christmas. I decided to change my transaxle fluid because I wanted to check it off my list before the end of the year. It was cold. I was cold. I hurried through the task. What I did was I jacked the car up in the front, drained and filled the fluid. In order to get the right fill amount, the car must be level. So I let down the jack, looked under the car, and no fluid ran out of the hole. But I had used well over the required amount. Strange, I thought. I know I had spilled some. Maybe I spilled a lot more than I thought.
Fast forward to today. I’ve driven the car about 3,000 miles since Christmas. Today I gave it about 75% throttle (I usually baby the car) and the transmission… slipped. Each time I stepped hard on the pedal, it acted like an automatic waiting to downshift. The revs would shoot up as if in neural and then they would fall as the tranny would finally slip into gear. It did this in every gear at high throttle.
The only other bit of strange I noticed is there’s now a loud whistling out of the exhaust at high throttle. I doubt they’re related but just wanted to get it out there. Maybe it’s just an exhaust leak. The whistle comes right out of the end of the exhaust tip it sounds like.
Anyway. I sat the car on (4) jack stands today to check the fluid. I pulled the fill plug to see if I had low fluid. Fluid came gushing out. A lot of it.
Turns out, I must have put the fill plug in BEFORE leveling the car the night I filled it. So yes, I was running around for 3,000 miles with about ¾ of a quart extra, I'm guessing.
Could this have caused my slipping problem? Yes, I could just go drive the car but I’d like to get this resolved while it’s still on jackstands in the shop. Plus, if the synchros are bad or something I don’t want to make it worse by driving more.
What do you guys think? And yes, I was stupid but did overfilling my transaxle fluid cause my transmission to slip??
It was a few days before Christmas. I decided to change my transaxle fluid because I wanted to check it off my list before the end of the year. It was cold. I was cold. I hurried through the task. What I did was I jacked the car up in the front, drained and filled the fluid. In order to get the right fill amount, the car must be level. So I let down the jack, looked under the car, and no fluid ran out of the hole. But I had used well over the required amount. Strange, I thought. I know I had spilled some. Maybe I spilled a lot more than I thought.
Fast forward to today. I’ve driven the car about 3,000 miles since Christmas. Today I gave it about 75% throttle (I usually baby the car) and the transmission… slipped. Each time I stepped hard on the pedal, it acted like an automatic waiting to downshift. The revs would shoot up as if in neural and then they would fall as the tranny would finally slip into gear. It did this in every gear at high throttle.
The only other bit of strange I noticed is there’s now a loud whistling out of the exhaust at high throttle. I doubt they’re related but just wanted to get it out there. Maybe it’s just an exhaust leak. The whistle comes right out of the end of the exhaust tip it sounds like.
Anyway. I sat the car on (4) jack stands today to check the fluid. I pulled the fill plug to see if I had low fluid. Fluid came gushing out. A lot of it.
Turns out, I must have put the fill plug in BEFORE leveling the car the night I filled it. So yes, I was running around for 3,000 miles with about ¾ of a quart extra, I'm guessing.
Could this have caused my slipping problem? Yes, I could just go drive the car but I’d like to get this resolved while it’s still on jackstands in the shop. Plus, if the synchros are bad or something I don’t want to make it worse by driving more.
What do you guys think? And yes, I was stupid but did overfilling my transaxle fluid cause my transmission to slip??