Ah! good idea. If the fluid/pan look bad, i will use that trick.
Dieselhead wrote:
Wonder if i can drill a hole in it and then thread in one of those
self-tapping drain plugs, or even a metal building screw with the
washer and neoprene seal. The plug may cause an imbalance, but I
doubt the screw would cause significant imbalance. I guess I
could put in 2 plugs/screws 180 degrees apart. I suppose the
clearance to the vanes may be too close. Anyone cut a modern TC
open?
Sounds like a good way to make a leak.
When a friend of mine burned the fluid in his Caravan, (one
generation before yours) I changed the filter, unhooked the cooler
line to the radiator, plugged the cooler line into a clear vinyl
hose, and let the engine idle until the fluid coming out suddenly
changed from brown to pink. Apparently it did not mix in the torque
converter, the new fluid pushed out the old, and the change was
obvious when the old was gone and the new started coming out.
Then I hooked up an axillary cooler and adjusted the fluid level.
The tranny held up for as long as they owned the van, but I think
that was only a couple of years after I installed the cooler.
Mitch.
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