Ok so after coming home from the mall I am heading home off the freeway after dropping the girlfriend off. So the trans acts funny ,kinda slips and shutters slightly while pulling away from the light. At the next light I go to go and it just slips while barely catching. When I get hom the culprit is the hose to the tranny cooler has worked it's way almost all the way off (clamp was stripped out apparently) and fluid is everywhere. The dipstick shows nothing. I wash it off and call it a night until I can work on it.
Today I replace the clamp and tighten the hoses. I fill it with 5 qts of fluid and it still does not register anything on the dip stick. It does however move without problem. It does slip a little between shifts and the shifts are soft. It has a shift kit and stock pan and converter with a trans cooler.
I am guessing that maybe the torque converter emptied itself, does this sound feasible? If so how do I go about refilling it, do I have to drop the trans? I imagine so. Seeing as how it seems to be fairly ok now I hope that filling it properly would help alleviate the problem.
Any advice or words of wisdom, Wise Ones?
Today I replace the clamp and tighten the hoses. I fill it with 5 qts of fluid and it still does not register anything on the dip stick. It does however move without problem. It does slip a little between shifts and the shifts are soft. It has a shift kit and stock pan and converter with a trans cooler.
I am guessing that maybe the torque converter emptied itself, does this sound feasible? If so how do I go about refilling it, do I have to drop the trans? I imagine so. Seeing as how it seems to be fairly ok now I hope that filling it properly would help alleviate the problem.
Any advice or words of wisdom, Wise Ones?
