RustyMacintosh
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- 94 XLT 4x4 Exploder
Ok, input advice.
202k, we swapped in a rebuilt valve body yesterday. The shifts were getting sloppy. The shop I use is a neighborhood place where I know the owner personally, and his kids who work there.
It was finished, sitting idling when I walked up. I was first to drive it. I loved it. Smooth solid shifts. No hesitations. Paid the bill, went home, took a nap (yeah old men do that often), came out found a puddle of oil under the pan.
Drove the 1/2 mile back,--pan gasket was not on right or something like that, they pulled the pan, this time the kids did the gasket right. I noticed my Valvoline Synthetic was still in the back seat. So they used dyno the first time, synthetic the 2nd time.
This time no leak. The shifts are much more pronounced. I noticed when I came up to a stop light, I felt it drop into 2nd gear. Not harsh, but similar to the 94 XLS I also own.
I am thinking, maybe this trans likes the dyno oil? The upshifts are fine. Yeah, I can feel each gear as it upshifts, not in any way harsh, just you can tell it just upshifted. Where before with the old valve body, it was so subtle that you almost missed the shift.
I used that red bottle Valvoline. I assume this trans is compatible. I just noticed that the first time I drove the EX the shifts were noticeably more secure, the 2nd time after the synthetic was put in, the shifts are much more pronounced. Not harsh, not anything that would worry me, just more like a true automatic. Not like a CVT that it acted like before.
Suck out a couple of quarts? Put in Lucas treatment? Leave it alone? Today I will drive it more. It was late last night, I need to make a run to SFO in it next week. (Hopefully God does not drop SFO into the Pacific on the 25-26th-- I am adopting my 24 yr old kid I helped from the streets to Medical School--he says. "I always wanted a dad.." I told him he could do better.}
So what ya think? My 99 XLT has a rebuilt auto trans I scored off Ebay for $700 is in it. The shifts are smooth, it is just this XLS I can now feel it when it upshifts. Like I said, not harsh. Just more like an old school automatic trans...)
202k, we swapped in a rebuilt valve body yesterday. The shifts were getting sloppy. The shop I use is a neighborhood place where I know the owner personally, and his kids who work there.
It was finished, sitting idling when I walked up. I was first to drive it. I loved it. Smooth solid shifts. No hesitations. Paid the bill, went home, took a nap (yeah old men do that often), came out found a puddle of oil under the pan.
Drove the 1/2 mile back,--pan gasket was not on right or something like that, they pulled the pan, this time the kids did the gasket right. I noticed my Valvoline Synthetic was still in the back seat. So they used dyno the first time, synthetic the 2nd time.
This time no leak. The shifts are much more pronounced. I noticed when I came up to a stop light, I felt it drop into 2nd gear. Not harsh, but similar to the 94 XLS I also own.
I am thinking, maybe this trans likes the dyno oil? The upshifts are fine. Yeah, I can feel each gear as it upshifts, not in any way harsh, just you can tell it just upshifted. Where before with the old valve body, it was so subtle that you almost missed the shift.
I used that red bottle Valvoline. I assume this trans is compatible. I just noticed that the first time I drove the EX the shifts were noticeably more secure, the 2nd time after the synthetic was put in, the shifts are much more pronounced. Not harsh, not anything that would worry me, just more like a true automatic. Not like a CVT that it acted like before.
Suck out a couple of quarts? Put in Lucas treatment? Leave it alone? Today I will drive it more. It was late last night, I need to make a run to SFO in it next week. (Hopefully God does not drop SFO into the Pacific on the 25-26th-- I am adopting my 24 yr old kid I helped from the streets to Medical School--he says. "I always wanted a dad.." I told him he could do better.}
So what ya think? My 99 XLT has a rebuilt auto trans I scored off Ebay for $700 is in it. The shifts are smooth, it is just this XLS I can now feel it when it upshifts. Like I said, not harsh. Just more like an old school automatic trans...)