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Tranny/t-case? Smelly today

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Well today I was hauling a Plymouth Breeze on a tow dolly with the 96 XLT and we were on a steep curvy back road and instead of riskin hurtin the tranny I put it in 4low and drove bout 2 mile and damn it started smelling really bad or hot, I had the toggle switch to where it would just be running 2wheel low i don't know what it was and was to busy to be able to check it out today but after taking it out of 4low the smell went away and tonite I had used it when backing the other trailor into spots to haul stuff and no smells from it tonite, anyone have any ideas of what the prob. is?
 



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The fluid probably overheated. Check the fluid in the transmission, and the transfer case. If they smell bad, or look dirty, change them. Do you have a transmission cooler?
 






No which is stupid on my part, if I woulda realized how much weight there was in the first place i woulda used my 92, I think in the owners manual it says the fluid was last changed around 10-15K miles ago. I'm still tryin to decide which cooler to go with there are 5 different ones at advance auto and don't know which one would be better off going with.
 






heck I figured being in low range it would be a little bit lighter load on the transmission and woulda prevented the fluid to getting to hot but guess i was wrong
 






The stacked plate coolers are more efficient than the tube, and fin type.
 






As BB says, the test is to smell it. If it has a toast smell, replace it.
 






Alrighty, I'll check this morning and see what it smells like, and i think the ones that seen at advance looked more like a radiator in different sizes
 






Here's an example of a stacked plate cooler: http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/...tk-AllTextSearchGroup?Ntt=transmission+cooler
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Ok, I checked the tranny fluid with it being cold maybe not cold but checked it after it sat overnight and before it was ran at all and it smelt a little funky, and I believe the tranny fluid is suppose to be a redish pink right?? this was a little like that color just with a little bit of a light brown tint. I don't have tranny fluid to know what it should smell like but i believe it has a burnt smell cause it smells like hot wires kinda.
 






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ok the color is in the "still not bad" section then cause thats about the color of it.
 






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