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Originally Posted by rocknrollcali87
Who Me? 
that school at the time really did a number on my little pickup. There's a huge hill you have to drive up to get to it and my clutch went out at the end of a semester. I hated the people at Rio Hondo College! I go to Mt. San Antonio College now, better curriculum, more learning experience.
30,000 miles ago with a new filter and I don't remember if they still did transmission flushes with this machine they no longer use anymore. Our dealer where purchased the truck S&J Chevrolet told us they didn't use that equipment anymore. Anybody know about this? I heard they had problems when they did a flush with this equipment. The first two transmission flushes might have been done with the machine.
You mean how the shift patterns have been setup through ECM? Maybe they are off? |
I remember reading about a small controversy between those that liked flushing and those that didn't. The ones that didn't thought that if you had a vehicle with higher mileage that the varnish and build-up in the tranny would hold it together, so-to-speak; even with changing the fluid and filter, the left-overs were still in there. So, the theory was that by removing all the fluid from the tranny and 'verter, you were removing what was sealing the tranny up and holding it together, and there were those that claimed they had failures not long after the flushes. Personally, I think that if a simple fluid change from swapping filters has worked this long, leave it alone unless there's a problem. I'm no tranny guy though.
I think he means because the ECM controls the tranny that there's a chance the ECM could be causing the problem. I remember reading people over-oiling air filters were causing tranny failures because the oil would get on the MAF sensor wires and cause the ECM to interperate the data wrong, control the tranny wrong, and burn the tranny up. I don't know if you have a oil-impregnated air filter or not, or if that's even the case here, but I though I'd just add this senario since I've read about it before.