transmission trouble, any ideas?

[Dillzio]

Hi gang,

My transmission has been a little suspect of late and I was hoping for some ideas on what the problem might be.

The first thing I noticed is that the torque converter seems to be a bit "indecisive", it's like it will lock up, then unlock, and then decide to lock up again and so it goes on. The other day I put my foot into it from about 40kph accelerating up a hill, it dropped back to first, then when it went to second the gear change was really slow and the clutch seemed to engage for way too long.

I have also noticed that the shifts in power mode are no where near as stiff as they were. The car has an OTRCAI, sports exhaust and a chip, the chip made the car shift really hard in power mode before, but now the shifts are really spongy.

I last had the trans serviced about 3,000ks ago, but I was told then that the service had been overdue, and there was lots of crap in the pan - no metal though.

Any ideas? Please?

[white lie]

How's the fluid level?
Have you got a cooler on it?
I'd be getting it checked properly though, sounds like its on its way out!

[whitels1ss]

P.M. sent!
Call Jamie at JRM Transmissions at Lonsdale on 83264323
He will be able to advise and fix it for you! :goodjob:

[Dillzio]

Thanks for the advice guys.

Can't say I've checked the fluid level yet (duh!), I'll do it next time the motor's warm.
No, it doesn't have a cooler, but I don't tow anything with the car (except for my mountain bike rack :-))

Hopefully it won't be too much to fix, I'm pretty broke at the moment. I've been unemployed 6 months now and my car's really suffering because of it. I'd hate to have to fill the tranny with honny and flog the old girl off to some unsuspecting sucker.

[white lie]

Regardless of towing or not, they need a cooler on them. Heat is what kills these boxes and they're notoriously weak, even with a near stock motor in front of them.