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White crud in Crankcase 95 850T 850

posted by  jadnhm on  Thu Feb 4 07:42 CST 2010
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I also do the 'lower gear' trick to get things warmed up.

BTW everyone, in looking into how the W mode works on the pre-P2 cars, I found it to be a great way to keep the car in 2nd gear.

Here's the mapping :



Gear Selector              Actual 

Position           W        Gear 

   D              Off       1-4

   3              Off       1-3 

   L              Off       <25mph=1, >25mph=2 

   D               On       3-4

   3               On        2

   L               On        1


I have found this information very useful this winter.

While starting in 3rd (D+W) causes a LOT of spinning (and cooking of fluid) in the torque converter, starting in 2nd (3+W) is really not bad at all, and it's a good way to keep the car in 2nd gear while warming up. Plus of course the added benefit of reducing the chance of wheelspin.

FWIW I fully expect this is much harder on my trans fluid, but its current fluid is not that old (~15k miles), and it's getting new synthetic this spring.

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1998 V70 AWD->FWD Turbo 200k+






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New White crud in Crankcase 95 850T [850]
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