Figured that was without saying....and filter, and clean the inside of the pan.
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Figured that was without saying....and filter, and clean the inside of the pan.
Mine being a 1995 it’s obd1. What kind of scan tool will I need? And I was also planning on changing filter and fluid on my transmission anyways.Connect a scan tool, find out what the computer is trying to tell you.
Not only do you need to verify engine performance, I'd want to interrogate the transmission, too. Fluid temperature, shift adaptation, and anything else that seemed relevant.
Confirm: this is a SHIFTING problem, not a TORQUE CONVERTER CLUTCH problem?
...and filter, and clean the inside of the pan.
I wish that were so.Figured that was without saying.
Any REAL scan tool is not limited to OBD2. Plenty of consumer-grade tools are. You just need to source either a proper scan tool, or one of the software-plus-cable/connector solutions that seem to be popular with everyone but me.Mine being a 1995 it’s obd1. What kind of scan tool will I need?
"...but that tool is really expensive, and we have to pay it off!"And those folk charged MORE than we used to get for a pan-drop fluid change plus filter.
"...but that tool is really expensive, and we have to pay it off!"
The selling point on the fluid flush machines was that it changed all of the fluid. We just didn't know back then that suddenly changing all the fluid in the transmission was a bad thing. If you did the fluid flush regularly from day one it was good, but if your transmission was over 100k, you didn't dare use the machine or you'd be buying a new transmission. That hasn't stopped the shysters from selling it as a cure-all. I think we consumers need to bring back tar and feathering.
That^^^Not true, I've purged numerous high mileage transmissions by dropping the pan, doing the filter, sticking the return line in a bucket, and pumping fresh fluid until it comes out clean. Merely exchanging old, nasty fluid for fresh, clean fluid will NOT hurt your transmission. Blowing fresh fluid through at high pressure without dropping the pan is different.