DoctorRoboto
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- Location
- Portland, OR
- Vehicle Year
- 1998
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 4.0L
- Transmission
- Automatic
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- When life gives you lemons, just shut up and eat your lemons.
All,
I have a weird problem with my ATF that I don't want to make any worse. I followed the process in the manual to check the ATF on my 1995 Mazda B3000, and it was GROSSLY overfilled. As in, 3 times higher than the high mark when hot. I'm guessing this is the work of the PO, but it could be something strange like a clog somewhere. So I followed others' instructions and bought a hand siphon, and started taking out fluid. Well, I just pulled out about 2.5 quarts of fluid, and it's now roughly around the top of the hash marks, which is what it should be while hot. It is currently cold.
I'm worried that something is clogged, or something else weird. How is it possible that I could have taken this much fluid out? And when you start the engine up and cycle it through the gears, and it gets warmed up, how much might I expect to see the fluid level go up or down?
I'm even more worried that if I did something wrong and took too much out, that starting up the truck and shifting through gears will cause some kind of immediate catastrophic failure.
Any recommendations on what to do?
Related symptoms - before removing fluid, truck definitely clunked into gears when shifting under any kind of engine load, or going up hills. Also did a bit of clunking when shifting from reverse to drive at a standstill, and vice versa.
I have a weird problem with my ATF that I don't want to make any worse. I followed the process in the manual to check the ATF on my 1995 Mazda B3000, and it was GROSSLY overfilled. As in, 3 times higher than the high mark when hot. I'm guessing this is the work of the PO, but it could be something strange like a clog somewhere. So I followed others' instructions and bought a hand siphon, and started taking out fluid. Well, I just pulled out about 2.5 quarts of fluid, and it's now roughly around the top of the hash marks, which is what it should be while hot. It is currently cold.
I'm worried that something is clogged, or something else weird. How is it possible that I could have taken this much fluid out? And when you start the engine up and cycle it through the gears, and it gets warmed up, how much might I expect to see the fluid level go up or down?
I'm even more worried that if I did something wrong and took too much out, that starting up the truck and shifting through gears will cause some kind of immediate catastrophic failure.
Any recommendations on what to do?
Related symptoms - before removing fluid, truck definitely clunked into gears when shifting under any kind of engine load, or going up hills. Also did a bit of clunking when shifting from reverse to drive at a standstill, and vice versa.