Transmission Blow Today- St. George UT
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Just for curiosity sake, what would a new transmission cost (I have a '99)?
Was that a drain and fill? Was it a fluid exchange? Was it a flush? Was it at a dealership using Toyota ATF? Keep us posted.
Heard bad things about flush if they put a cleaner in?
Thanks. That would be awesome if you can get it. Even if they've already drained the pan there should still be some in the TC. Only need about a cup of fluid. I know you're in for a bunch of costs and I'd be happy to pay-pal you the $25 to cover the sample cost.
Is there any reason why the R&R couldn't be a DIY? Looks like you can get the trans for $2,385 (after core). And if it's just a bolt show it might be worth it. From what I remember, it might need to go to the dealer for programming to 'learn' the new trans.
Besides thoroughly flushing TC and cooler, what else would need to be done?
Besides thoroughly flushing TC and cooler, what else would need to be done?
Make sure all the lines are flush, do a search another member had one out in a 2000 and posted a list of what needs to be changed and flushed.
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Man, I can't find any post of a trans R&R here... if you have the link bookmarked could you post it for future reference?
here on MUD, they've failed anywhere from 60K to over 200K. There is no "safe" mileage... Of course, I think 200K is a "premature" death for a Toyota tranny, but hey, that's just me...
my mechanic does not recommend the flush...seems a huge percentage of failures happen after a flush. He feels that small debris is forced up into channels as the system is under pressure and it clogs the very tiny oil passageways....therefore causing premature trans failure.
He recommends getting your fresh fluid...removing lower hose that goes to trans cooler.....turn on engine and pour fresh fluid in top as the old fluid pumps out of the hose...when fluid is clear again, cut it off...reconnect.....top off and be done. That way normal operation is exchanging the fluids instead of the pressurized flush.
Just a thought.....
yes , the 55 with the 2uz is my daily driver , its allwayse here , His old trans was failed somewhere behind the ft pump assy and would build no psi for a stall test , made a bad grind from the bell pan area , i will try for a fluid sample , late now but i will go squezze out the core . as for a price we go off all data , as a dumb tech in a small dealer i got no pull , would have been alot less if i could find a non hardened ear . but i get no say in the matter . i did try .
here on MUD, they've failed anywhere from 60K to over 200K. There is no "safe" mileage... Of course, I think 200K is a "premature" death for a Toyota tranny, but hey, that's just me...
IIRC, the bell curve peaked in the 90-120k range. However, I have no idea if that's just representative of our small sample size. For that matter it could correlate to a behavior, such as most 100's turn into wheeling rigs around the 100k point. However, there does seem to be positive correlation to high mileage; if it's going to happen, it seems to happen earlier than later.
And again, from the 'will it happen to me' perspective, you should have around a 95% chance of it not happening. So don't fear the truck or the year. Web forums get the trouble postings but not the success postings to they tend to bias the failure mode mentality.
Peaked from 50--130K, most likely because that's a typcial range for ALL trucks, not just failures, in other words, there's no sign that the right tail is not going to expand as we see more and more MY 2000 trucks get up to and over the 200K mark... Mine's at 190K now. Maybe I need to update the graph? There's been a few more failures since last year's analysis...
