Well, just did trans swap into the stock Regal.
Picking it up, i check for leaks, leave it running for a little while to make sure before i set off on a 20 mile drive with it home.
Well, everything looks okay and i set off with the wife behind me in the 04 GTP. Before the swap the car made the usual clatter from a bad coupler (Just haven't gotten around to replacing yet..)
This clatter is still there as i'd have expected but seems more pronounced, Almost like a cracked flexplate would sound. Instant heebie jeebies...
So we pull over and check on it in a lighted parking lot, It doesn't sound like it's coming underneath so much. We then get on the Turnpike and she's running smooth as a baby's bottom, Shifts are smooth, Slip is minimal to none, MPG's are excellent as i'd expect and the HPT doesn't indicate anything glaringly wrong with the car.
Coming off the highway i kinda sense a very faint transmission fluid smell, Then when pulling off at the light the transmission refuses to really let the car go till about 3,000rpm, And it's only getting worse. I get it into my condo parking lot and proceed to back it in when it just refuses completely to move....Uh oh. Then i see smoke coming out underneath and out of the hood...
Let her run for a little and try to back up again, and see more smoke, and hear a metallic squeak...NOT GOOD, so i shut her down and employ the help of some kind folks nearby backing it in to my carport. Notice a nice big and slick spot of trans fluid fluid while backing it in in neutral..
I went over the HPT log after we got in and after the car started slipping, the engine started heating up at a much more rapid pace than previously as well as faster than the trans fluid itself. On the second log i noticed Cyl6 was misfiring quite badly...
So my question is,
What do you guys think went wrong?
