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[onesweetride]

I'm about to swap trannies to my '96 SE.I was told on higher mileage trannies not to change the fluid.If its working leave it alone.I had this happen on my '89 Reliant where I changed the fluid it quit running about a month later. Now. My friend who is more familar with trannies says is this is false. He always changed them with no probs. What are your opinions on this.

[bonnevillain]

IF a transmission is failing, and actually having problems, then that may hold true. If it's running fine (which i'm assuming it is if you're swapping it in), I would change it.

[onesweetride]

Yes my '96 only has 1st no other fwd gears or reverse.
My '97 does 214k+ mi. I know it proably needs a rebuild,
but no shift probs or leaks. Also no funds avail. w/ holidays.

[00Beast]

This is a case of mis-information. Everyone says that their brother, uncle, etc. had his tranny fluid changed at 175k, and it went out three weeks later, or whatever. I'm sure it happened, but it's because the tranny was destined to go anyways. The old fluid probably had a lot of clutch material in it, which was probably the problem. The new, more solvent fluid washed everything off, and there wasn't anything left, and the trans took a dump. It was on it's way out, the new fluid just pushed it along. What does the 97's fluid look and smell like? If it's pink, and smells like tranny fluid, you're fine either way. If it's dark red, or even gray, and/or smells burned, then that tranny is more than likely toast too.

[Jrs3800]

I agree... Changing the fluid is not gonna cause the trans to fail... If the trans fails it was bound to fail in the first place or was already failing...

[repinS]

My trans just about went during the fluid change, in the shop

But in all seriousness, while it was driving okay, dropping the pan revealed and disturbed all the metal shavings and a part shed from the diff... clearly I was already on borrowed time and for all intents and purposes I'd have considered it to already be gone. I'm just lucky I caught it right before an 1100-mile road trip.

[onesweetride]

bump up

[repinS]

There's no need to bump a thread based on the last post being 6 hours ago.

[swiles]

extreamly faulse i have had cars with 600000 miles i usually start putting synthetic after 100 000 a transmission is only as good as u treat it

[spidey3479]

are you sure you're counting the zeros correctly?