elementalwindx
15+ Year Contributor
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- Aug 13, 2003
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Wilmington,
North Carolina
Ok I took a trip to Raleigh this weekend for a meet and I wanted to see how well the automatic would handle a 2 hour trip and some driving around the town all in the same day. As its probably the most its been driven in a single day at least in a year. Since I've bought the car I've only put less than 2,000 miles on it, and changed the end clutches and the seals inside that area (except beneith where the 6 torix screws are). Ok so on the way up there, me and another dsmer get side by side and I turn OD off and go from 60-100mph pulling hard on him, then I slow back down to 80 and turn OD back on, but for some reason it refuses to go back into OD, so I call a few friends and one mentions that if the TCU gets a code, it wont let it go into OD and to just turn the car off and let the ECU cycle and turn it back on and it should work, well that did work and we got to Raleigh just fine. This whole time the trans temp gauge is right at around 115deg. Well during the drive in Raleigh I'm switching in and out of OD and sometimes shifting the gears by hand going from L to 2 to D, and thruought the day the transmission has been staying in the 150-180deg range and the transmission was stuck in what felt like 3rd gear and I am GUESSING this is a limp mode of some sort? I can put it into L and into 2 and there is no gear change, then I can put it into D and it will change into some gear, and if I turn OD on, it wont change any kind of gear, and for some reason the transmission would not get cooler than 150deg even while driving on the highway.
What the hell could be causing this to happen? I have not changed the filter inside this transmission yet but Lee (the previous owner) said he changed it religiously after each race. I've taken this thing to the strip 3 times and not changed the filter once, and I've changed the fluid once when I did the end clutches. Please help guys, thanks.
I've also checked the fluid with it in N and there is fluid to the top of the black dip stick.
What the hell could be causing this to happen? I have not changed the filter inside this transmission yet but Lee (the previous owner) said he changed it religiously after each race. I've taken this thing to the strip 3 times and not changed the filter once, and I've changed the fluid once when I did the end clutches. Please help guys, thanks.
I've also checked the fluid with it in N and there is fluid to the top of the black dip stick.
