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Racerx11

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Car broke down last night on the way home from work. Didn't have my cell phone on me. Had to walk the last 5 miles home at 1:30 am. I was sad.

Got it to the garage today. All the tranny fluid drained into the radiator. Guess the cooling lines run through there. Gonna cost $475 to fix. I'm still sad.:
 
Racerx11 said:
Car broke down last night on the way home from work. Didn't have my cell phone on me. Had to walk the last 5 miles home at 1:30 am. I was sad.

Got it to the garage today. All the tranny fluid drained into the radiator. Guess the cooling lines run through there. Gonna cost $475 to fix. I'm still sad.:
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That sux but hey it could be worse.
 
If you have tranny fluid in with your coolant you're also going to have coolant in your tranny. Be prepared after you put a new radiator in, flush your coolant and top off lost tranny fluid there's a excellant chance you'll be looking at a tranny rebuild too. :(
 
SST, it depends on how the system works. Usually it pushes the fluid away from the tranny into the rad, and counts on the outbound fluid to push the cooler fluid back. The outbound is high pressure, the return low pressure, but not vacuum. In a system like that, there's no vacuum to draw coolant in. It'll pump high pressure fluid into the rad, and the over flow will exit via the radiator overflow bottle, until the transmission oil pan is empty.

That's not to say that you won't need a rebuild anyways, having run with the tranny dry.
 
Professur said:
SST, it depends on how the system works. Usually it pushes the fluid away from the tranny into the rad, and counts on the outbound fluid to push the cooler fluid back. The outbound is high pressure, the return low pressure, but not vacuum. In a system like that, there's no vacuum to draw coolant in. It'll pump high pressure fluid into the rad, and the over flow will exit via the radiator overflow bottle, until the transmission oil pan is empty.

That's not to say that you won't need a rebuild anyways, having run with the tranny dry.
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But I bet it puts coolant into the trans fluid when it's shut off.Coolant system will still be under pressure when the trans is not.Until it cools off that is.
 
I was pleasantly surprised yesterday. My recent car trouble ended up not being anything major at all.

My wife's car (the one I just bought a few weeks ago) was running really rough. It surged, throttled up and down, and just worried me quite a bit. The "service engine soon" light came on wednesday night when it got bad enough to alert the computer. I took it to Auto Zone and they pulled the code from the computer. It was an evap code and it said the most likely cause was a bad gas cap. I replaced the cap for $12.99 and it runs great again. I worked in auto shops as a service manager and store manager for years. In all that time, I'd never seen a car run that badly because of a freaking gas cap. But, I am almost orgasmically happy that that's all it was in this case.
 
Replaced the cap on my daughters Jimmy several times. I give her one for her birthday now.:D
 
Yep, our firebird throws the evap leak/gas cap every now and then, and mine has a evap leak- but it only throws the code if there's more than 3/4 tank of gas in it. I still haven't traced that one, i'm thinking charcoal canister myself.
 
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