So I had a oopsie reassembling and installing a trans I rebuilt. Long story short, I reused the converter solenoid and it was faulty and so the converter was locked on permanently.
I was slow to realise what was going on and thought it was an engine problem long enough to take it for a test drive pushing the engine past the bogging down and stalling…. Whoops.
So when I dropped the fluid to replace the solenoid, there was predictably a nice metallic sheen to the fluid! The poor converter lockup clutch got an absolute beating from that test drive!!!! Was a good layer of black gunk on the magnet too, and there was a sediment that had an ever so slightly gritty feel. I assume this is steel from the lockup clutch steel side, so the magnets should catch most of it.
But new solenoid in and it drives wonderfully and the lockup works perfectly. Lockup isn’t slipping as that would throw a fault code so I might be lucky….
Obviously it’s going to get as many oil changes on the trot as required to stop it coming out with metal in it, and I’ll be relying on the new filter and the magnets.
So what’s people’s thoughts on how badly I screwed up? Is it going to live or did I irrevocably condemn it to an early death?
I was slow to realise what was going on and thought it was an engine problem long enough to take it for a test drive pushing the engine past the bogging down and stalling…. Whoops.
So when I dropped the fluid to replace the solenoid, there was predictably a nice metallic sheen to the fluid! The poor converter lockup clutch got an absolute beating from that test drive!!!! Was a good layer of black gunk on the magnet too, and there was a sediment that had an ever so slightly gritty feel. I assume this is steel from the lockup clutch steel side, so the magnets should catch most of it.
But new solenoid in and it drives wonderfully and the lockup works perfectly. Lockup isn’t slipping as that would throw a fault code so I might be lucky….
Obviously it’s going to get as many oil changes on the trot as required to stop it coming out with metal in it, and I’ll be relying on the new filter and the magnets.
So what’s people’s thoughts on how badly I screwed up? Is it going to live or did I irrevocably condemn it to an early death?