Originally Posted by jayhawkjesse33
Well it seems as if Murphy's Law has reared its ugly head once again. Last Friday I ordered new wheels and scheduled my appointment at the interior shop to have it redone...the wheels are, I mean WERE supposed to be here tomorrow, but now its at least another week and a half. So I was out driving this past weekend and noticed that my transmission was revving pretty high on the RPMs before it would shift gears. Its also been leaking fluid as well. So I took it by the best place in town yesterday and had them take a look at it. I went by there this morning and got the news....$1900 to do a rebuild w/ a 3 year warranty. YIKES. Plus he was 'nice enough' to give me the following other news: that my carrier bearing is shot and about to fall off the car.
Any suggestions on how to approach this situation?
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Double check your fluid level. If ok, pick up a filter kit from your local autoparts store (GM TH180 trans ~$12.00) and change it and the fluid. Low fluid level caused the same symptoms in both my wagon and Senator.
Back when I had my garage, one of my customers daughters sold me her Pinto wagon cheap because the auto trans was slipping badly and "needed rebuilding". I drove it to the same trans shop that she had been to. The guy came out, popped the hood and added 1 1/2 quarts of ATF. Never had another trans problem with it.
My take is that many trans shops play on the "mystery" of an automatic trans and always play up the worst case. The standard line in their pitch was "We can fix it for $xxx or we can completely rebuild it for $xxx" which was typically a few hundred more than the "fix".