Ahem. I blew a tranny.

Gotcha with the thread title, didn't I? Actually, I was out and about on Saturday, and started having problems with my car's transmission -- to the point that it wasn't getting into gear and despite putting more and more transmission fluid in, I was continually out of fluid. Now -- as the thread title suggests, I was afraid (as one former coworker so adroitly put it) I blew the tranny. As it turns out, the problem was a $170 fix. I was guessing around $800 at least. I sigh with HUGE relief, and the world's not such a sucky place today.

Just a note of thanks to karma, or whatever spectral element of goodwill there is out there that I owe much gratitude to.

 

I actually knew exactly what this thread was about from the start.

 

Relieved this isn't about him.

 

Project Runway: Uncensored.

 

Why's everyone looking at me?

 

So how long have you owned a Taurus?

 

No way. Has to be a Chrysler product.

 

Buick LeSabre, actually. Turns out there's something called a suction modulator, which regulates when gear shifts happen. Mine broke, and every time it tried to gain suction, it was blowing tranny fluid into the engine where it would burn off. Poof. Disappeared. Thankfully, it's located on the outside of the transmission, so I avoided a very expensive repair.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with that ...

You, ahem, got off luckier than you realize. A failed transmission that results in having to have a new one put in likely wouldn't be less than $2,000. I had a problem recently with my Rodeo where the servo cover was leaking, which cost me $250 (including the fluid change, good god this thread is rife with verbal peril) and I gladly paid it, knowing I would have to spend 10 times that much.

 

S'OK, Killick.

I fucked a hobo.

 

That is so wrong, Zeke.

The preferred term is homeless person.

 

So you thought you blew a tranny, but it was really just a broken suction modulator?

(uh huh huh huh huh)