Lost my Transmission Today!

[Danielle]

I can tell you that when I overheated my trans it dumped 8 quarts of fluid on the ground out the burp tub on the flex plate cover. There was no sign of any fluid on the bottom of my truck. There was fluid that I dumped on the road miles back though. I coasted down a long hill, when I hit the bottom and I have it throttle, no forward gears at all. Once I put the 8 quarts back in it, it worked like it did before. I put a trans cooler on it when I got home. You could have a bad trans, you could have a bad torque converter, or you could have low fluid. I know what's cheapest to check first though, and if there is no fluid on the stick I would be dumping in some ATF to find out. Just my .02.

That's exactly what happened to me. Mine overheated, dumped all the fluid. I did same thing, new filter, new cooler, new fluid, and a temp sensor, have had no problems since. Thank god I had read on this forum, I was about to send to a trans shop!

 

[OLDBULL8]

Ok, since you filled it and still no movement and no carnage in the pan. Before you do a complete pull, slide it back and see if the drive shaft is broke, that's the inner shaft, outer shaft is the pump drive shaft,or you may find this below.

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[warmblood58]

How, not sure what you mean? If I grab driveshaft, will it just rotate in my hands with no resistance?

 

[OLDBULL8]

It will just pull out, it's a shaft about an inch diameter and a foot long, if it comes out in one piece it's OK, two piece FUBARED, spline on each end. First pic is the torque conveter. Any damage there you'll see it right away.

 

[warmblood58]

so disconnect driveshaft, pull away from trans and pull on input shaft?

 

[trackspeeder]

Pull the tranny and check the input shaft. Because you found no major metal in the pan. The shaft could have broken. Major amounts of metal the shaft could have stripped.

The converter or pump could have let go too. The tranny will need to be pulled to find the problem.