Thread: The Borg... getting a little noisy

Did my routine fluids early last week, but haven't had a lot of time in the car, which is a bit unusual.

anyhoo, the TC, when drained, had nice coloured fluid (ATF) but I noticed what I would call 'enough' shiny dust in the fluid to be a little concerned. Not overly concerned mind you, I've seen far worse things in atf before.

However, on driving the car next morning (early in the cold), after a brief warm-up there was a slight but noticeable vibration/noise coming from the TC shifter. a light amount of pressure applied saw the noise disappear.

The TC itself seems to be a little quieter, rather, I should say there is a little less whine - on the highway limit. Below that, it's not all bad.

So I'm now left wondering if the synthetic ATF I used is not a good idea.

I was going to put some neo synthetic 7wt in there, but as this is my first scheduled maintenance interval for the TC fluid change, I was going to run one lot of normal ATF and see how everything goes before wholesale swapping for neo, which is pretty expensive stuff.

Can any experts out there provide some feedback on the BWTC and if the TC needs it's scheduled intervals halved or something...

Also, I'm used to the usual clutch band dust in atf, but in a TC there should not be any (and there wasn't), but a similar amount of fine fine metallic dust came out in the first half litre of fluid, after which is tran pretty damn clear.

I'm figuring it's not much to worry about yet, but perhaps if there is a measurable anecdotal symptom it will accelerate the search and swap-out for an LT230...

which I'm still looking for. Seems that when you aren't lookinf for one, theyre all over the bloody place, but the minute you do, You can't find one.

insights, thoughts, comments appreciated.

cheers.

Originally Posted by Mercguy

Sorry Lockee, I'm not quite following...

you have a 15K BW or you just bought one or getting rid of one?

i have one that has come out of my RRC to put in LT230