If it is a matter of admitting something, I don't have an issue with that. I can say it right here, the way I speed with the truck defiantly makes an impact on the transmission. But with that said, the truck's tranny never got worse, it just always stayed consistently half-tolerable since I've had it. Usually I don't mention the transmission at all because I've learned what it is, and I've taken it for face value. Then suddenly it just gave out on the trip. I really didn't even want to take the truck up there because I knew the way it acts on backroads and on big hills. But my truck has the bigger cab, so it was our only option. It seems awfully coincidental that the truck did this when I actually had to put the tranny to work. Usually the most the truck does is drive around in the city, and then the moment I take her on the highway for 130 miles, it coughs up the next morning. I took very slow on the highway, hell had to because it sways around everywhere. If I had thought my tranny couldn't handle the speeding, I would have stopped. But the tranny was always tolerable. It has diesent shift points, but it's the backroads where it starts to wonder and kind jump back and forth occasionally. So that's where I got the anger against the tires. When it always has kind of been OK, but not near its end. Then when I take it on a realistic trip and bring it into real life, the truck couldn't even handle a 350 mile round trip. And that's what bugged me. It could just be the transmission is toast because it has 106,000 miles on it. What would cause the truck to suddenly have a substantial leak like that also? To me though, I know I won't change. I love speed, and I love a badass truck that can be used for work but also light 'em up. That's why I'm saying maybe get the tranny fixed or a new tranny if I need it, and then bring the truck back to reality for my driving habits, and make it so it can handle speed. Like you guys all say, this truck is not meant for peel outs and speeding, so with that said, that bugs me. I want to be able to speed, thats mint to me. Anyway, I still have a lot of thinking to do. Hope I haven't pissed anyone off or anything, I just got alot going on right now. And I do consider all of your guys' thoughts and suggesstions. It's all I was thinking about on the way home from the trip was getting on the forum and seeing what you guys had to say. So aside from my lift and tire proposal, why would the truck suddenly have a leak when I take it for a ride. I didn't like the fact it's been fine since July, then suddenly I take it up to my grandparents, and it couldn't even handle that.

Also, here's a little video I shot when I was up there. It's my grandfathers property that we spent the summer developing. It was neat seenig the snow all over the roads where we cleared all the trees and put down a nice gravel road in. There was over a foot of snow, and the truck easily devoured them. The tranny was still having issues before I went down the snowy roads, but it did ok being in 1st gear in 4 low. I really do love this truck though! Here's the vid of it going up the steep hill, sweet!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rhrzXnsBAJ4

 

Youve done plenty since the day youve came here to warrent being called an idiot....and its obvious im not the only one that sees it.

Dont worry kid, your not $hitting on ANYONES dreams. No one looks to you for advice or as a pathfinder.

Your an idiot not because you dont know about vehicles, there are plenty of people out there that dont know, they arent idiots. Your an idiot because you claim to know when you dont and disreguard every repeated effort to help you gain knowledge.

Vehicles dont gauge intelect your correct...but your mouth does....your inteligence gauge is broken.

I dont see that you are learning...why should we cut you slack.

If you thought you knew everything you wouldnt bother posting....so why are you posting.

Id rather not come hang out with you in real life.

But really...your an idiot because you have a poor trans and you are beating it senseless.


I bought my truck with the trans ailing as well...163,000 miles. I have added quite a bit of power to my truck as well as raced it through a whole season. Now at 189,000 miles my trans is still as good as when I bought it. Why? Because I dont rape it every time I drive. Drive like a human and respect your vehicle.


Sorry, I said I wouldnt do it, but it appears Im not the minority and finally people are voicing their oppinions so I am too...again.

 

Whats the tranny doing anyways? I wonder if you overheated it and the oil boiled over. Also trannys just all of a sudden graping out is kinda how they go out.

 

I'm wondering if that's what caused the issue. It strikes me odd though, it did fine all the way up transmission wise. Then the next morning, the moment I pulled out of their driveway, it began just wining and refusing to shift out of certain gears. There also wasn't anything that the truck did on the way up that gave any signs about it starting to fail, and that's why I just am confused with this.

Input from people who are actually here to help me out will be appreciated. Goober *** boys who get little clitty bonars from trying to make fun of me over vehicles can stop while they are ahead, it's really getting old. I can tell who the nice guys are on this forum. They know I'm not an idiot, and they know I'm a nice guy trying my best to learn, and I thank you for having patience and working with me, really I do. Im taking back what I said so I dont have this thread locked. All I can say is grow up for people baggnig on me, it's childish and it's getting old. I only listen to the advice of guys who are actually genuinly helping me out. Just because we are on the computer doesn't mean I can't sense when somebody is just being an ***..

 

Take my advice or leave it. I already posted, no need to reiterate it or change my statement untill you go find out more info.

go check the trans pan gasket to see if the gasket blew out

also go check to make sure your trans pan oil drain bolt is tight and alright

no more argument from me...pms from now on.

 

It probably didn't shift because there wasn't enough oil to shift it. If the gasket blew wich is the most likely thing then you dumped a quart on the ground at your grand parents. Then by driving it afterwards you dumped more because now the tranny is pumping it out. Although I'm not sure how your gasket would blow since it's low pressure unless something got cloged and caused the tranny to be high pressure. The other possibility is the tourqe converter grenaded and now it's leaking wich means your not going to be driving the truck much longer. Do what indy ram said. Check around the sides of the pan for leaks.Then see if you can see where the leaks are. Tell us where the leaks are and that will help in figuring out what it is. Either way though I'm thinking your truck is done until the tranny is fixed. you have like a 10% chance it's something like a solenoid and 90% chance it's somthing major. Start praying that all of the hard parts are in good condition.

 

+1

Thats what I was wondering....

If the torque converter shat its innards youd know...you wouldnt be able to move AT ALL. if the fans die they arent transfering fluid. Also If the fans die they would more than likely wind up in the front pump and thats another wonderful thing to fix....but I doubt it because he hasnt shown signs of slipping or anything like that previously. Torque convertors, atleast in my exp, usuially dont instanly degrade, but do it over time rather.

id say its about 90% chance of blown gasket and leakey fluid, 10% solenoid and 75% chance of major problems (since hes been running it with low fluid)

 

+1

I too am 175% sure you have a tranny problem

 

i say its 100 % in his mind... if you want to play , you gotta pay...

 

I wonder if it was slipping and he either didn't notice or hasn't told us about it yet. put yea I see your point that it wouldn't go all at once and once it did go he would be calling a tow truck. With driving that far without the oil I'm pretty sure he has a couple of clutches out. By the way how would a gasket blow out. If it is the gasket at least it an easy fix albeit a messy one and thats if thats the extent of the damage wich is very unlikely.