Anybody flushing their trannys anymore?
07-29-2011, 05:49 PM
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Anybody flushing their trannys anymore?
Ive always read on here that most people are flushing their trans at every 30,000 miles. I've been calling around and most tranny places say they don't do that or they don't believe in it. There just droppIng the pan to service the filter and replace 5 or so quarts. Anybody on here getting their transmissions flushed? I think mines starting to get hot on longer trips. 32,000 miles.
07-29-2011, 11:09 PM
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If you race your car or do anything that gets that fluid overly hot, it will vent it out and over time you will be low on fluid. Its not that difficult to follow tacobills DIY and change the fluid. Yeah its messy, slippery stuff but its certainly worth peace of mind knowing your fluid is full and new. Realize as that fluid gets overheated it looses its performance ability. I swap mine out every year. Its well spent money IMO.
07-30-2011, 09:55 AM
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Places don't believe it in for good reason....it usually just disturbs deposits that are inside the tranny (which are NOT flushed out) and ends up causing more problems down the line, especially on higher mileage trannys.
Drain and fill for me.
Drain and fill for me.
07-30-2011, 10:12 AM
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07-30-2011, 12:04 PM
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Yeah, could be snack oil though, who knows.
He did say that for the older higher mile trans, DON'T do it.. because it'll dislodge too much gunk and fry the trans. If you do it, do it early before the build up. ONly bad thing is, they don't change the filter in those flushes, which is odd. If it were my car I'd do both.. more expensive, more fluid lost/used, more time but it'll be done right. I had mine done this year since I was too lazy to do it myself, but I will doing it every summer since track season is heavy..
07-30-2011, 02:48 PM
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The BG treatment solution actually (supposedly) dissolves those deposists inside the trans and flushes them out. We had a demonstration at work and the dude showed us "old" tranny fluid.. put in the solution.. and it turned red again.
Yeah, could be snack oil though, who knows.
He did say that for the older higher mile trans, DON'T do it.. because it'll dislodge too much gunk and fry the trans. If you do it, do it early before the build up. ONly bad thing is, they don't change the filter in those flushes, which is odd. If it were my car I'd do both.. more expensive, more fluid lost/used, more time but it'll be done right. I had mine done this year since I was too lazy to do it myself, but I will doing it every summer since track season is heavy..
Yeah, could be snack oil though, who knows.
He did say that for the older higher mile trans, DON'T do it.. because it'll dislodge too much gunk and fry the trans. If you do it, do it early before the build up. ONly bad thing is, they don't change the filter in those flushes, which is odd. If it were my car I'd do both.. more expensive, more fluid lost/used, more time but it'll be done right. I had mine done this year since I was too lazy to do it myself, but I will doing it every summer since track season is heavy..
07-30-2011, 09:45 PM
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With all of my previous autos, I wouldn't even consider flushing until 60k miles and for sure by 100k miles. One vehicle I had I let go until about 180k miles and the tranny began acting up immediately after.