If you're worried about "dirty fluid" contaminating the new stuff and
causing problems, then like I said before, your tranny is dying already
anyways, and nothing is going to help. If you keep up on regular changes
and don't burn up the fluid that's in the tranny, it should be fine. The
tranny in my '99 had 116K miles on it when I totaled the truck and I changed
the fluid every 36K miles. Never had a problem with it even with the mods
on the truck and lots of racing.
brian cropp
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Bernd D.
Ratsch
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 8:04 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: RE: DML: RE: When to change tranny fluid,or forget it.
Considering that you're only changing 5-6qts of a 16qt system...you still
leave the dirty fluid in there and contaminate the new fluid. Either way
can cause issues...it's not just flushing.
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Preston [mailto:steveophonic@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 6:24 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: When to change tranny fluid,or forget it.
So you're saying if you flush the tranny,and it goes
downhill,it was crap already? That makes sense to me!
Thanks Brian!
Steve P.
--- Brian <hskr@san.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Go ahead and change it. If it causes problems, then
> it was going to fail
> anyways. I've heard of flushing the tranny causing
> problems, but never just
> changing the fluid. Putting fresh fluid and filter
> in should never cause
> any problems.
>
> brian cropp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On
> Behalf Of Steve Preston
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 3:23 PM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: DML: When to change tranny fluid,or forget
> it.
>
>
> I've heard this from several people over the years
> and
> Bernd also mentioned it recently,about it not
> necessarily being a good idea to change fluid/filter
> on high-mileage transmissions. My only question
> is,at
> one point should you just leave it (at what
> mileage)?
> Our 2000 Jeep GC has 80k on it,with the 42RE. We
> bought it at 30k,and it probably never had
> maintenance
> done on the transmission. Once in a great while,it
> will temporarily jump out of drive on sharp turns.
> Fluid level seemed right when I checked it,but
> apparently you're supposed to check it in what they
> call "neutral"? :0
>
> My inclination is to change the filter,and fill it
> with ATF+4,and that's what I'll do,unless someone
> sets
> me on a better path!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve P.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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