cmelo
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Re: THe NAC Lots-O-Post Thread
I'll add to the AW-4s are tough argument.
Few years ago now, when I had a nice 99 cherokee classic. Rolled it going like 55 doing fishtails on a dirt road. Flopped on it's side it ran dry on fluid. Started up the jeep the next day and drove it out of the tow companies lot. Drove it for MONTHS like that. Only thing I did was when I was driving after a couple days or a week or something I stopped off at a gas station because it was slipping. So I bought one MAYBE two quarts of ATF. Opened them up, flipped them upside in the area of the dipstick tube and basically poured it all over the ground. A couple teaspoons worth might have gone in there. Tranny shifted great:cheers:
Point two, my current subject a piece of junk 93 cherokee. It's probably close to empty right now. If I fill it fluid, fluid always drips off somewhere and hits the exhaust making the jeep bellow smoke. So I don't fill it at all, problem solved. Drive it everyday like this and no I haven't checked the fluid. It's been atleast a year since I've pulled the dipstick out and I dont care what it looks like or how low it is. Shifts great :cheers:
I used it for mud bogging back then, which meant religious rev limiter and TCU controlled 1-2 shifts (meaning banging the rev limiter for a couple seconds and then shifting into 2nd) in 4LO through mud every weekend.
I parted that jeep out at 235k and threw the AW4 in the garage.
Along comes this jeep and I swap it into this one. I changed the filter, the fluid, and emptied the torque converter. Threw the tranny in (while forgetting to refill the torque converter), filled the pan, and started her up. Converter ran dry for about 10 seconds.
I can honestly say, no problems EVER since I've owned it. All I've done is put a tranny cooler on it and that ONE fluid change.
And I think everyone here knows how hard I am on it. I hit the rev limiter at least once a day.
I'll add to the AW-4s are tough argument.
Few years ago now, when I had a nice 99 cherokee classic. Rolled it going like 55 doing fishtails on a dirt road. Flopped on it's side it ran dry on fluid. Started up the jeep the next day and drove it out of the tow companies lot. Drove it for MONTHS like that. Only thing I did was when I was driving after a couple days or a week or something I stopped off at a gas station because it was slipping. So I bought one MAYBE two quarts of ATF. Opened them up, flipped them upside in the area of the dipstick tube and basically poured it all over the ground. A couple teaspoons worth might have gone in there. Tranny shifted great:cheers:
Point two, my current subject a piece of junk 93 cherokee. It's probably close to empty right now. If I fill it fluid, fluid always drips off somewhere and hits the exhaust making the jeep bellow smoke. So I don't fill it at all, problem solved. Drive it everyday like this and no I haven't checked the fluid. It's been atleast a year since I've pulled the dipstick out and I dont care what it looks like or how low it is. Shifts great :cheers: