Yeah, you think that's bad, try GM's grape-scented gear lube.
Ontopic The new car-seching thread
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[Irishing it] imagine being "the kid" at a trans shop where you had to pull burned ones all day, then strip them and soak them in mystery goo to clean them. I did that for about 11 months. mmm, we also had the contract for the 4X4s from city dump. So you started out by digging everything from diapers to tennis shoes from around the transmissions and shit. So you could get to the bolts.
I used to work at a oil change shop. In my case, the worst was differential fluid. That shit STUNK and the fucking smell never left.[Irishing it] imagine being "the kid" at a trans shop where you had to pull burned ones all day, then strip them and soak them in mystery goo to clean them. I did that for about 11 months. mmm, we also had the contract for the 4X4s from city dump. So you started out by digging everything from diapers to tennis shoes from around the transmissions and shit. So you could get to the bolts.
Lest @fly think I was kidding:
Amazon product ASIN B000QGOX1A
It smells like some one ate a grape, shat the grape out, then ate the shit, and shat the shit out into the bottle.
Amazon product ASIN B000QGOX1A
It smells like some one ate a grape, shat the grape out, then ate the shit, and shat the shit out into the bottle.
So all in, minus picking up an extra torque wrench, costs were $600 (also includes brake pads all the way around, which is next).
$275 of that was renting a car for a week cause I didn't want to take off the transmission pan. I call costs like that a retard tax. Lesson learned.
$275 of that was renting a car for a week cause I didn't want to take off the transmission pan. I call costs like that a retard tax. Lesson learned.
In reality the pan sticks to the block and doesn't just tilt, and you end up prying it 10 different ways trying to get it loose, being all careful not to bend the pan... then the thing suddenly lets go and the ATF comes out sideways and misses your drain pan by a foot.
One of my old beaters had holes in the floorboard that slush would shoot through if I had the wheel turned just right, generally hitting the passenger right in the face. It was awful.
And funny AF
So you actually fixed your transmission for like $50. Well done, sir.So all in, minus picking up an extra torque wrench, costs were $600 (also includes brake pads all the way around, which is next).
$275 of that was renting a car for a week cause I didn't want to take off the transmission pan. I call costs like that a retard tax. Lesson learned.
It doesn't miss my drain pan by a foot, it misses your drain pan by a foot.
Of course it sticks. Do the bolt thing right and it can only come down one way, that being directly into your properly placed drain pan.
Come on you guys are engineers and scientists and shit, why is this simple task kicking your ass so?
Because I don't have a lift, let alone one of those fancy telescopic drain pans that rolls underneath that you can raise up so it's just under the lip of the pan.
I'm barely fitting under a shitty car that's held up on the smallest shittiest $20 pair of jackstands, beside a shitty/tiny oil drain pain that I'm using to catch the ATF from the transmission pan that's a foot and a half above... and cursing myself for offering to help a friend out vs having them spend the extra $20-$30 to have a garage do that shit.
As an engineer, I don't buy cars with autotragic transmissions on purpose.
The one I do have gets serviced by someone else who has a big ol' drain pan that will take the entire thing when it inevitably falls off the wrong way.
The one I do have gets serviced by someone else who has a big ol' drain pan that will take the entire thing when it inevitably falls off the wrong way.
How the hell do you think I do it? I don't have any of that fancy shit either. I do it the same way you do, except with pieces of plywood under shit I don't want to sink in the gravel and dirt.
Procedure is the same whether the car is 6ft. off the ground and the pan 4-1/2 or the car 1-1/2 and the pan zero.