Thread: Is Automatic Transmission Stuffed?

Cool .... transmissions stuffed, but the radio now works! .... hey, my wife would be impressed !

Hope your transmission flush is as successful mate ! That was nice of Scouse to sort out your code.

Almost ready for Stockton Beach ? .... I'll throw a spare can or two of "Transmission's Stuffed" into the recovery gear bag ...

... just in case

Cheers
Kev..

thanks for your words of encouragement (I think), when the transmission eventually breaks down at least I can listen to the radio while I am waiting for a towtruck Anyway, not being a mechanic, I feel I have achieved something today, tomorrows challenge (thanks to help from Woko) is to flush the radiator, there is still some gunk in there.
Thursdays challenge is to have the Auto box flushed, which is a bigger challenge because all the advice I have been given is that it will eventually fail, no matter what, will have a heart to heart with Bob Hunt at Maitland (the auto tranny guy), who has been very helpful on the phone.

Well, I had the tranny flushed out last week, Bob Hunt Auto's at Maitland is of the opinion, the tranny will not last, by the way you should have seen the strawberry icecream that came out of the tranny box. He refilled it with a fluid used in Fords, which is not the right fluid but he said it is only a quarter of the price and as the tranny WILL fail it is a waste of money putting the right fluid in.
Today, I had the radiator flushed out with more success, coolant system is now good as new. While I was having this carried out I went around to Bob and enquired on the price to replace the tranny, he gave me worse case scenario but said he would strip the transmission and see if things can be done to save it. (not optimistic). Bob said if he put a new transmission in he would replace the radiator cooler with an air cooled one from a diesel model, which means, the problem will not reocur. Apparently the BA Falcon is set up the same and both Bob and the Radiator guy said they do a lot of work on them.
Why did Landrover not put an air cooled transmission cooler on the petrol models in the first place is beyond me!!!
The transmission is not good with rough changes every now and then and sometimes hanging on in a gear.
thats the update!!!

the reason why its got a coolant cooled heat exhchanger is because they are more efficient at dealing with peak loads and can handle a higher heat load at lower speeds.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

the reason why its got a coolant cooled heat exhchanger is because they are more efficient at dealing with peak loads and can handle a higher heat load at lower speeds.

Makes sense, but they don't leak coolant into the auto box an **** it!!!

no, they let you boil the oil when your working it hard and kill it that way.

ask george130 about killing auto oil.

Then why put the air cooled version in the diesel Freebi's???

different torque converter, the cooling system is different and they may not have been able to get it in.

I think its also got different gearing which means theres less load on the TC.

thats just best guess.