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190D22 · #1 12-03-2002, 08:13 PM

I took my car in for a transmission flush and filter change. The guy is great. But we're both confused... He filled it so it's slightly overfull and I take it home and it is just leaking tranny fluid like a sieve. I take it back and he drops the pan again and puts a new pan gasket in. The pan gasket was slightly leaky he said when he was first in there. He refilled it and it only took 2 quarts and the dipstick was reading overfilled... WAY overfilled. He said the transmission is perfect, the original fluid was perfectly clean, 0 metal in the pan. He calls these leaks 'burps' out of the transmission breather. He wants to get this correct just as much as I do. Especially since he just rebuilt the jeep's transmission yesterday. But anyway since I've brought it home it appears the leaking has stopped and it runs fine. I drove it around again and it has since not leaked anymore. We agreed I would bring the car in tomorrow around 4:00PM for him to look at it again and clean it up.

He and I discussed the dip stick... why would it take 2 quarts after being drained and read over filled??? I checked it the second time I came home with it and it read overfilled like I had done when I tried topping it off myself. He agreed with me that the dipstick is difficult to push down into the tube. He said the dip stick does not appear to be bent, but the tube looks twisted. Don't know how the tranny tube can get messed up... but it makes sense. He asked if that is the correct dip stick, I told him as far as I know it is. But the dip stick being incorrect seems to make sense, because when I checked it the very first time it was not registering on the stick at all... So I put a quart in and it read WAY overfull. But throughout all of this the tranny has acted no different. If anything it shifts better right now.

If anyone on here can offer some insight please, it's greatly appreciated and very accepted right now!