Re: "Well, I went and killed my transmission."
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 Naturally you DID replace the lost fluid before attempting to drive it
right?

How did you find yourself in Honduras?  Just wondering....
If you're on a secret mission, or something you don't need to answer

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Fill the tranny back up with fluid.....and try to drive it....
even if it only goes forward...see if it'll make
the gear shifts as you speed up.

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Notes 4-U:

The Transmission is a TH700R4.

If it was shifting before you went chasing rebels through the canyon,
then you may get lucky.
But don't hold yer breath.

If it has 1st gear, it should have revearse unless
you broke something.  Fill it up and see all
the forward gears are there.  

If it pewked the fluid out and you kept reving it up in revearse,
breaking something is highly possible, and is most likely what's
happened
on the inside of the tranny.  
(forward clutch area)

If it pewked the fluid out while the tranny still had a good revearse,
and you stopped gunning the engine immediately, then you may get lucky.  

do a repost,
let us know.

MarshMonster
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Auto transmission died on an 83 Suburban  

Group: alt.autos.4x4.chevy-trucks Date: Fri, Aug 6, 2004, 10:01am
(CDT-1) From: wpost@hondutel.hn (Warren Post)

Well, I went and killed my transmission. I found myself nose downward on
a steep track that was becoming impassable, chickened out, put it in
reverse, and could only spin the wheels on the loose rock. I thought I
was not spinning the wheels too much in my attempts to rock the vehicle
free, but I obviously overdid it. ATF blew out through the dipstick hole
into the engine compartment, and now that the car has been towed out,
reverse does not work. 1st gear does work, at least for the couple of
yards I tried it.
The fluid remaining in the transmission is red and not burnt smelling. I
don´t dare drop the pan to look for stuff inside: no one here really
knows anything about automatic transmissions and I don´t want somebody
with more enthusiasm than knowledge (like myself) making a bad problem
worse.

The truck is an 1983 Suburban Silverado, 6.2 diesel. Transmission is
automatic overdrive, but no one here can identify the model. It´s 4x4,
but it came without a front drive shaft which I never replaced so I only
had rear wheel drive to get me unstuck -- stupid.
Now I need advice, and since where I live automatic transmissions are
rare I don´t trust the local advice I´m getting. My options seem to
be:
1. Send the transmission to a transmission shop (a day´s bus ride from
here) and see what they say. Not a recommended shop, mind you -- merely
one of the few there are in the country. I am leaning toward this
option.
2. Consider the transmission dead and start searching the junkyards for
a replacement automatic transmission. That´s going to be tough: Chevys
are rere here, and automatic transmissions on anything is rare, too.
3. Consider myself in manual transmission country, and start scouring
the junkyards for a manual transmission and whatever it takes to adapt
it to my truck, so that the next time I have tranny trouble a local shop
can take care of it.

Any thoughts?
I´m out of my league here and don´t want to compound my original
mistake by choosing unwisely now.

TIA,
Warren
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