RodneyWright wrote:
OK, here's what happened so far. I pulled out about 3 quarts of tranny fluid and refilled w/ 2 quarts of valvoline maxlife and 1 quart of lucas stop slip. Drove about 30 miles and it still slips, but found something interesting while driving the back roads. On either a straight take off or a right turn take off from a stop, the tranny slips going from 1-2.
Now what's interesting, is every time I take off from a stop and go left, it's just as tight as it can be, no slips and I can do this consistantly. I think these cars have a viscous coupling for the tranny. And I on to something here or am I still screwed transmission wise?
Comments from you subie owners?
I guess I also need recommendations for a good transmission shop. Rex at happy jap's says he doesn't do trannies.
UPDATE: so here's where I am now. I drained as much of the transmission fluid as I could. Also bought a new filter just to see if that made any difference. Once under the car, I see where someone did a crap job of a previous replacement, no gasket, only silicon and a few odd replacement bolts. After pulling off the pan, the one interesting thing I found was when I unbolted the filter, it just fell out. After inspection, there was no O-ring on the filter. Installed the new filter and O-ring, buttoned up the pan w/ all the correct bolts and added about 5 quarts of Valvoline maxlife dextron and a quart of trans-x as Bret had mentioned.
Drove it down the road and nothing seems wrong, no slips at all. No issues starting left, right, straight, soft starts, hard starts....nothing. Either the Trans-x is a true miracle additive or there were some issues w/ O-ring on the filter allowing the filter not to pick up fluid correctly. The old filter did not look clogged from what I could see. Anyway, the car drives fine and if I can get another 10k out of it before I have to do any more tranny work will be fine.
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