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Thursday, 13 October 2011

Got a "new" automatic transmission.

Seems like I've been driving my car with to little oil in my automatic transmission for a while... I have had some issues with a non working kickdown, and it didn't shiftdown in a smooth way when I hit the pedal without doing a kickdown.

Since I'm not familiar with old autotrans and only had a german users manual I couldn't understand how I should mesure the oil level on the stick.

Now I know that I shall have a really warm engine/transmission, shift stick in "P" and  the motor idling for a couple of minutes. The oil-level under this conditions should be at the high mark (but not over).  It took 2 liters of oil to reach this level and now it works like a charm...

Now it never misses a kickdown, nice smooth downshifts even at small throttle changes and nice accelerations, a whole new transmission. The car have never runned better...

2 comments:

  1. You believe that you've got more control of the car when you're driving than you would with an Automatic gearbox.

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  2. I suppose you pointing at my poor translation...

    Automatic transmission should be the correct term but a direct translation from swedish would be automatic gearbox... Was maby a little to fast when I wrote it.

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