Tranny Flush?
03-15-2005 | 03:05 PM
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Tranny Flush?
About 2yrs ago i rebuilt my tranny and a month later (or weeks cant remember) it went out so i had it rebuilt(BTW tranny flush done at jiffy lube)
. I read on this post that Tranny flushes tend to move particles off that have
overtime become part of the components inside the tranny and with the high
pressure flush it loosens these particles off and BAM
there goes your
tranny.....
About 3months ago i pulled the pan and drained it and added Royal purple and the older oil in the TQ was not Syn. ever since then it sometimes wont shift into 3rd until i pop it into neutral.
Well I need your Opinions....
TRANNY FLUSH OR NO TRANNY FLUSH????
THANKS FOR THE RESPONSES!
. I read on this post that Tranny flushes tend to move particles off that have
overtime become part of the components inside the tranny and with the high
pressure flush it loosens these particles off and BAM
there goes yourtranny.....
About 3months ago i pulled the pan and drained it and added Royal purple and the older oil in the TQ was not Syn. ever since then it sometimes wont shift into 3rd until i pop it into neutral.
Well I need your Opinions....
TRANNY FLUSH OR NO TRANNY FLUSH????
THANKS FOR THE RESPONSES!
03-15-2005 | 04:41 PM
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Re: Tranny Flush?
The material thing is overrated, any kind of loose material floating around in the trans is bad and is never good for it to be there. A transmission is a machine made up of many free-rotating parts that are controlled by clutchpacks and bands that act like "brakes". Gears (or gear ratios) are given by holding some parts still or locking some parts together to turn at the same speed.
The biggest problem with high-pressure tranny flushes is that it damages or breaks some of the o-rings on the pistons that are responsible for applying the clutchpacks and bands. I've personally seen 2 transmissions in my dad's work trucks (tahoes) go out after having a flush done, as well as a couple of friend's go out too. Apon teardown, every one of them had damaged o-rings. Luckily for them the fix was pretty simple and not to expensive (as long as other parts weren't broken/burned up due to the loss of pressure). So, i wouldn't recommend them.
The biggest problem with high-pressure tranny flushes is that it damages or breaks some of the o-rings on the pistons that are responsible for applying the clutchpacks and bands. I've personally seen 2 transmissions in my dad's work trucks (tahoes) go out after having a flush done, as well as a couple of friend's go out too. Apon teardown, every one of them had damaged o-rings. Luckily for them the fix was pretty simple and not to expensive (as long as other parts weren't broken/burned up due to the loss of pressure). So, i wouldn't recommend them.
03-15-2005 | 04:58 PM
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Re: Tranny Flush?
Originally Posted by Fast Caddie
The material thing is overrated, any kind of loose material floating around in the trans is bad and is never good for it to be there. A transmission is a machine made up of many free-rotating parts that are controlled by clutchpacks and bands that act like "brakes". Gears (or gear ratios) are given by holding some parts still or locking some parts together to turn at the same speed.
The biggest problem with high-pressure tranny flushes is that it damages or breaks some of the o-rings on the pistons that are responsible for applying the clutchpacks and bands. I've personally seen 2 transmissions in my dad's work trucks (tahoes) go out after having a flush done, as well as a couple of friend's go out too. Apon teardown, every one of them had damaged o-rings. Luckily for them the fix was pretty simple and not to expensive (as long as other parts weren't broken/burned up due to the loss of pressure). So, i wouldn't recommend them.
The biggest problem with high-pressure tranny flushes is that it damages or breaks some of the o-rings on the pistons that are responsible for applying the clutchpacks and bands. I've personally seen 2 transmissions in my dad's work trucks (tahoes) go out after having a flush done, as well as a couple of friend's go out too. Apon teardown, every one of them had damaged o-rings. Luckily for them the fix was pretty simple and not to expensive (as long as other parts weren't broken/burned up due to the loss of pressure). So, i wouldn't recommend them.
WOOOHOOO!!!!!!
YOU JUST SAVED ME SOME MAD DOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS ALOT...I WAS THINKING ABOUT GOING TO JIFFY LUBE TODAY....
03-16-2005 | 10:51 AM
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Re: Tranny Flush?
Now that you mentioned it, I had mine flushed about 20-25K miles before my original started acting up, I never really associated it to the flush because it was about 2 years prior! But thinking about it, that was only about 20K miles even though it was 2 years later, so it could have helped mine going out!
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