At about 107,000 miles and a few months after buying my truck and still unfamiliar with it the transmission started acting up. It started to act like it had a stall speed torque converter in it. I still had only driven it a few thousand miles and it wasn't that bad when it first started. It seemed like the colder the weather the worse it was but still not very noticeable especially to someone unfamiliar with this brand of vehicle. In fact it is my first of this brand.
I recall one day it was pretty cold, the truck acted a little worse so it made me think I better check the transmission fluid. Well the fluid looked nice and red and decent color, so then I thought well maybe its just the weather causing it to act up a bit so I drove it. The truck didn't act up all the time just every so often and a little worse when its colder outside. A few days go by same problem so I check the fluid again and it still is nice red color very normal but it smells like burnt clutches pretty bad. So I decide I better get it in and checked out.
I take it to local transmission repair shop I have been to in the past. They tell me well we better do a fluid and filter change and go from there. So I get this done and the problem goes away for a few weeks. Then it started to act up again like a stall convertor so I go back into same shop and they tell me I should probably do a transmission fluid flush. They didn't have a trans fluid flush machine at this particular shop and I couldn't afford to have it done that week anyway so I continued to drive the truck and I don't mean the truck was used everyday either. I don't go hardly anywhere or very far at that time because of my lower back issues.
So I finally was able to have the flush done so I took the truck into another shop that had one. Got it flushed and the trans was fine again for another few weeks. Again started acting like it had a stall torque converter so I went back to the original transmission shop and he tells me the only thing he can think of is there is 1 or 2 electrical parts in my transmission either 2 solenoids or 1 solenoid and another electrical part. I can't remember.
So of course I can't afford to have them put in right away so another week or so goes by and I can buy the parts and then schedule to have them put in. So at this time I had to get an oil change at the same time so I took my truck into my mechanic at the time and they said they could put the trans electrical parts in also. So by the time I got the trans parts to put into the transmission, the truck was acting like it had a 2,000 rpm stall speed torque converter. And those 2 parts caused my transmission to burn the clutches up and destroy my original transmission. According to my mechanic who then charged me $5,500 for a brand new Jasper transmission and heavy duty torque convertor.
At about 107,000 miles and a few months after buying my truck and still unfamiliar with it the transmission started acting up. It started to act like it had a stall speed torque converter in it. I still had only driven it a few thousand miles and it wasn't that bad when it first started. It seemed like the colder the weather the worse it was but still not very noticeable especially to someone unfamiliar with this brand of vehicle. In fact it is my first of this brand.
I recall one day it was pretty cold, the truck acted a little worse so it made me think I better check the transmission fluid. Well the fluid looked nice and red and decent color, so then I thought well maybe its just the weather causing it to act up a bit so I drove it. The truck didn't act up all the time just every so often and a little worse when its colder outside. A few days go by same problem so I check the fluid again and it still is nice red color very normal but it smells like burnt clutches pretty bad. So I decide I better get it in and checked out.
I take it to local transmission repair shop I have been to in the past. They tell me well we better do a fluid and filter change and go from there. So I get this done and the problem goes away for a few weeks. Then it started to act up again like a stall convertor so I go back into same shop and they tell me I should probably do a transmission fluid flush. They didn't have a trans fluid flush machine at this particular shop and I couldn't afford to have it done that week anyway so I continued to drive the truck and I don't mean the truck was used everyday either. I don't go hardly anywhere or very far at that time because of my lower back issues.
So I finally was able to have the flush done so I took the truck into another shop that had one. Got it flushed and the trans was fine again for another few weeks. Again started acting like it had a stall torque converter so I went back to the original transmission shop and he tells me the only thing he can think of is there is 1 or 2 electrical parts in my transmission either 2 solenoids or 1 solenoid and another electrical part. I can't remember.
So of course I can't afford to have them put in right away so another week or so goes by and I can buy the parts and then schedule to have them put in. So at this time I had to get an oil change at the same time so I took my truck into my mechanic at the time and they said they could put the trans electrical parts in also. So by the time I got the trans parts to put into the transmission, the truck was acting like it had a 2,000 rpm stall speed torque converter. And those 2 parts caused my transmission to burn the clutches up and destroy my original transmission. According to my mechanic who then charged me $5,500 for a brand new Jasper transmission and heavy duty torque convertor.
- Corey S., Port Huron, US