thedrip
1/2 ton status
From my other thread, I finally got my truck after months of waiting for it to be shipped. Now to the real news.. truck shows up, it will only go into reverse.. kind of, I add 3 quarts tranny fluid (I knew it leaked), it grabs reverse ok, no drive... back it through the parking lot and park it. Today I go out, add a quart of fluid at a time until I get it onto the dipstick, then run it through the gears, add, gears, add, gears... now it's reading at the top of the acceptable level, reverse is as tight as it ever was, drive, 2, 1 are pretty non-existant.. in manual 1st, it kind of has some drive, but very very little, nothing like before.
So in total, it was about 1.5 gallons low on fluid. it is a th350. kickdown cable is NOT hooked up (do I need to pull or push it a certain way to make forward gears like me?). Vacuum modulator line appears intact. Is it likely they killed the tranny? it had less than 1 mile extra on the odometer from when I dropped it off. What failures could cause a real strong reverse but no forward gears?
So in total, it was about 1.5 gallons low on fluid. it is a th350. kickdown cable is NOT hooked up (do I need to pull or push it a certain way to make forward gears like me?). Vacuum modulator line appears intact. Is it likely they killed the tranny? it had less than 1 mile extra on the odometer from when I dropped it off. What failures could cause a real strong reverse but no forward gears?
