700r4

[davidpaul2212]

Hello, I have a question regarding the 700r4 tranny i have. As I was driving down the road, i smelled something that kinda smelled like burnt rubber. I look in the rearview mirror and saw that my vehicle was smoking profusly. I pulled over and stopped. i looked under my truck, and saw alot of fluid on the ground. I popped the hood, and saw some fluid in the distributor, a little on the intake mainfold near the distributor and some on the back of the head on the passenger side. the smell was burnt tranny fluid. i checked the tranny dip stick and it wasnt red at all. it kinda looked like engine oil, but a lighter hue. it also had a few bubbles in it was well. Does anyone know what might have happened? It shifted fine for the remaining 700 miles that i had to travel, and it didnt leak any fluid after the initial hemorrhage. just burnt smelling and discolored fluid after that.

 

[K85 Octane]

you drove it an additional 700 miles?!

sounds like a sneeze, keep driving it, if something is wrong you'll find out soon enough.


OR you can take it to a trans shop and have them look at it, drop the pan and inspect. Seems like the logical thing to do.

 

[JPOutfitters]

Have it checked and then get ready for a rebuild!

Sounds ridiculous to me.........Oil all over the place under the hood, on the ground, wrong color! Then you drove it another 700 miles.......

 

[Blue85]

They can burp out of the dipstick tube - especially if overfilled. Since you could see the fluid on the dipstick and it still drove, you weren't super low on fluid after this event. So it may have been overfilled before.

I think the non-locking dipsticks were actually recalled and replaced with the little rubber locking-top ones. You should get one if you don't already have it.

 

[JPOutfitters]

They can burp out of the dipstick tube - especially if overfilled. Since you could see the fluid on the dipstick and it still drove, you weren't super low on fluid after this event. So it may have been overfilled before.

I think the non-locking dipsticks were actually recalled and replaced with the little rubber locking-top ones. You should get one if you don't already have it.

Yes, they can burp! But wrong color? Smelling like burnt fluid? Fluid burning on the exhaust is another entirely different thing.........