I got home today and while going down the road I noticed smoke behind me, so I looked under the car. I must have lost all of my tranny fluid. The pan is in place but there is fluid all over the exhaust. I just had the tranny rebuilt and hope nothing is permanetly damaged. Anyone have any ideas as to what might have happened. I won't be able to get under the car until later today.

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'86 IROC
T-TOPS, TINTED WINDOWS, BRAKE LIGHT BLACKOUTS
GM GOODWRENCH 350
EDELBROCK TES HEADERS
FLOWMASTER
EDELBROCK 600CFM CARB.
KN AIRFILTER
ACCEL HEI DISTRIBUTOR
160* Stat
2:73 GEARS
Rebuilt 700R4, with manual valve body
B&M Megashifter
Soon to be installed
Exhaust Cut-Out and different gears, either 3:73 or 3:42
"There is nothing more addicting than speed"

 

I put 3 qts. of fluid in it, started the car up but there wasn't anything leaking. My brother looked under the car and said the rear seal to the tranny was dry so it wasn't leaking there, but he couldn't tell about the front. Anyone have any ideas, especially since I started it up put it in drive but nothing was leaking.

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'86 IROC
T-TOPS, TINTED WINDOWS, BRAKE LIGHT BLACKOUTS
GM GOODWRENCH 350
EDELBROCK TES HEADERS
FLOWMASTER
EDELBROCK 600CFM CARB.
KN AIRFILTER
ACCEL HEI DISTRIBUTOR
160* Stat
2:73 GEARS
Rebuilt 700R4, with manual valve body
B&M Megashifter
Soon to be installed
Exhaust Cut-Out and different gears, either 3:73 or 3:42
"There is nothing more addicting than speed"

 

Either the seal is coming out or the bushing is walking out and eating the seal up due to the remove old parts and install new parts rebuild, I would guess no durability modifications were made knowing this.

[This message has been edited by Jay 727 (edited June 20, 2001).]

 

I may just be the pan gasket has blown out. The same thing happened to my Monte SS.

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Kenney
82 Trans Am WS7 notchback
83 Trans Am WS6 T-tops
Painter @ Chevy dealer
GM junkie

 

I had a torque convertor grenade on me... it had a crack on it's snout. Sucker broke apart, and took my front seal with it.

Good thing Lee Myles had just rebuilt it a week previously... I towed it back, mad as hell. I knew something was wrong, too, and asked them if the torque convertor could cause what I felt. They told me "no". After the explosion, I reminded them about my earlier question

Were you overfilled? There's a vent tube on the top of the 700r4 case that will spew fluid... sometimes this happens when the trans is overfilled and gets hot- the fluid expands and has nowhere to go.


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-Tom P (Hot rodded 1986 Firebird 2.8l) from http://www.f-body.net/mailbag/3rd/3rd_mailbag.html message boards
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Two areas come to mind. One is if the front seal blew out and the other is if it overheated and came out the vent (on top of trans, the little plastic tube).

 

It shouldn't have overheated, the fluid level was fine plus I have a tranny cooler, and the car was running around 180*. It wasn't overfilled either because I haven't had to put in any since the rebuild and that was a month ago, and this is the first time I have noticed tranny fluid leaking. I was thinking, think it might be a loose tranny line, the guy who put in my motor also put in the tranny and on the motor he must have not tightened the lower radiator hose all the way because one day I got to college and antifreeze started leaking from it, could this be possible with the tranny line.

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'86 IROC
T-TOPS, TINTED WINDOWS, BRAKE LIGHT BLACKOUTS
GM GOODWRENCH 350
EDELBROCK TES HEADERS
FLOWMASTER
EDELBROCK 600CFM CARB.
KN AIRFILTER
ACCEL HEI DISTRIBUTOR
160* Stat
2:73 GEARS
Rebuilt 700R4, with manual valve body
B&M Megashifter
Soon to be installed
Exhaust Cut-Out and different gears, either 3:73 or 3:42
"There is nothing more addicting than speed"

 

Sure, definately... if it's that loose to dump out that much fluid, you should be able to spin the fitting with your fingers.


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-Tom P (Hot rodded 1986 Firebird 2.8l) from http://www.f-body.net/mailbag/3rd/3rd_mailbag.html message boards
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I noticed a small drip coming from what I guess is some kind of sending unit, it is located on the passenger's side with a black and red wire, the red wire is broke off though. I tried to check to see if it was loose but by hand it won't screw in. Any ideas.

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'86 IROC
T-TOPS, TINTED WINDOWS, BRAKE LIGHT BLACKOUTS
GM GOODWRENCH 350
EDELBROCK TES HEADERS
FLOWMASTER
EDELBROCK 600CFM CARB.
KN AIRFILTER
ACCEL HEI DISTRIBUTOR
160* Stat
2:73 GEARS
Rebuilt 700R4, with manual valve body
B&M Megashifter
Soon to be installed
Exhaust Cut-Out and different gears, either 3:73 or 3:42
"There is nothing more addicting than speed"

 

My seal between the TC and the Tranny is leaking. When I drive it hard I get some white smoke and can tell it's burning.... but my dipstick constantly reads full?
I don't wanna go to the tranny shope and pay 250$ for em just to take the tranny out!

 

Don't feel bad! I have a TCI full competition 700R-4 tranny and it spews fluid out of the front seal at high rpm!

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84 Camaro ZZ4 with HOT cam. 1.88 60' (12.98 @ 105MPH E.T.)
Recently Ported Heads, Installed Larger Race-Flo Valves, RPM Air Gap Intake, and 1 3/4" SLP Headers (No new times)
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