- Location
- Roanoke VA
I have been fighting over-heating issues on my 96 with 200k on it.
I went out for a test drive after adding a new cooler to it and it ran fine in 80* weather, stop and go traffic. I forced it to get hot, 250 for a brief moment to see if it would hold up. See this thread in Mod tech;http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1100986
Bad idea! It started puking tranny fluid out the front seal but I drove it anyway and killed a few mosquitoes on the way home.
It dripped a little after I parked it but it hasn't leaked since. I drove it about 20 miles today, all stop and go.
1) I did have it slightly over-full, about 1/4" above the "hot level" cross-hatch.
2) After it got hot, it immediately cooled down on the highway
3) The fluid is coming from the bell housing, not the vent or lines.
Do you think it just expelled the excess fluid out the seal and the seal is okay otherwise?
As for the over-heating;
1) My torque converter is locking up, I'm sure of that
2) my gauge is reading a little high as compared to the IR gun that I am using to check it with. I do not know which one is correct.
Right now I'm running a small Hayden 401 cooler with a 7" Procomp fan pulling on it then the fluid goes into a Derale 26" 2 pass cooler mounted on the cross-member. They seem to be doing their job.
I'm going to Harlan in a couple of days. I have a spare tranny and TC but I just don't have the time to swap it right now.
I went out for a test drive after adding a new cooler to it and it ran fine in 80* weather, stop and go traffic. I forced it to get hot, 250 for a brief moment to see if it would hold up. See this thread in Mod tech;http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1100986
Bad idea! It started puking tranny fluid out the front seal but I drove it anyway and killed a few mosquitoes on the way home.
It dripped a little after I parked it but it hasn't leaked since. I drove it about 20 miles today, all stop and go.
1) I did have it slightly over-full, about 1/4" above the "hot level" cross-hatch.
2) After it got hot, it immediately cooled down on the highway
3) The fluid is coming from the bell housing, not the vent or lines.
Do you think it just expelled the excess fluid out the seal and the seal is okay otherwise?
As for the over-heating;
1) My torque converter is locking up, I'm sure of that
2) my gauge is reading a little high as compared to the IR gun that I am using to check it with. I do not know which one is correct.
Right now I'm running a small Hayden 401 cooler with a 7" Procomp fan pulling on it then the fluid goes into a Derale 26" 2 pass cooler mounted on the cross-member. They seem to be doing their job.
I'm going to Harlan in a couple of days. I have a spare tranny and TC but I just don't have the time to swap it right now.