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Well I thought it went away. Honestly it didn't happen for about 500 miles after I did the kit. But it's back.
I did a full bottle of lucas when I changed the filter a few k ago, but it didn't make much difference. This car has 190k on it, if the trans hasn't been rebuilt I know it's on borrowed time. I'm just babying it until I can afford a rebuild.
Our impala started the issue around 110k miles. It happens rarely now but completely randomly. Sometimes goes days without issues. When it does it, you don't really know until you feel the clunk, it doesn't completely slip as far as no movement yet.
Great write-up, worked like a charm. Shifts firmer and much better. Unfortunately it didn't solve the take-off shudders, still worth doing and easy if you follow directions.
Just wanted to say thanks for the write up. I used it when I installed my shift kit the other day. Thanks for taking the time to help others!
Write up was great and I love how the trans feels after putting this in. First two shifts feel so much quicker. Wish doing the 3-4 shift was just as easy... In any case, I'm glad I finally did it!
Just ordered the kit for my 04 gp cant wait till it gets here
It's been holding up fine, a friend who did the same minus the spacers loved the results too. He has since sold the car so we don't know it's doing, but my car is fine.
You can configure it how you want to, its not like tuning a pcm.
I'd always recommend the transgo kit because you should always have the good springs in there, then mess with spacers to get what you want
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The 01 GT was starting to show signs of slipping at around 125K. I put the TransGo kit in and it brought it back like new! Nice crisp shifts and no slipping. Now at 175K and starting to act up a little, but I figure I bought 3 years of time at a minimum. For the price of the kit, it's a no-lose.
Thank you for the write-up. It helped a great deal. I wouldn't of known to put the line clamp from Rockauto on there otherwise.
This kit can even help a trans with 244k miles on it. Never really had a problem with the max-adapt till close to 200k, even then it was very rare. Most of the time this car is only on the highway. No chunks or shavings, normal debris on the magnet.
So far it is working out great. Shifts are much quicker, as others have said, feels like how it should have been originally. Hopefully this will preserve the tranny for a few more years till we are better able to afford to replace the car.
A few notes I can add after doing this job...
OP is right about not torquing the pan bolts with a regular rubber gasket to 120 inch pounds. The previous trans fluid change on this car was the first time I had done it myself so I did not realize the stock gasket was reusable and I replaced it with a regular rubber one. I ended up torquing the bolts to 120 like it is recommended and when I dropped the pan this time all the bolt holes were bent up and I ended up having to straighten them all out. So unless you are using the ribbed gasket with the aluminum inner core 120 is too much torque and you will have a big hassle later when you change the fluid again.
Thanks again.
Glad it helped, and wow that's a lot of miles.
Thanks for the input on the pan bolt torque, I probably should specify in the op that I would use less torque only on the aftermarket gaskets. Stock is fine at 120.
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So...., would it be a bad idea to do a full flush on a tranny with 170k? Also, I assume http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=sr_1_1&sr=8-1 is the same for HD trans and non-HD?
Kit is the same, doesnt matter what car you own.
Just do a pan drop, you are getting most of the fluid out by doing it. I advise against flush machines but exchange machines are just fine, they use the transmissions pump itself to exchange the fluid on it's own.
Okay, that's what I figured. I'll just do a pan drop when I get to it.
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More than half. What is the capacity? Like 12.5 quarts? With the transgo kit you'll end up changing like 8 of those.
Then at the end of this how to I exchange an additional couple quarts from the torque converter.
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