I was making a 65 mile trip using the freeway. I had made my exit off the freeway and stopped at the stop sign, then notcied some smoke coming out from underneath my car. I headed to the truck stop which was 1/4 of a mile away. When taking off from the stop sign, my car was taking quite awhile to shift from 2nd to 3rd gear in my AW-70 transmission. Unusual, since I've never had this problem in any of my V's.
I finally stopped in the parking lot of the truck stop, looked under my car and noticed trans. fluid leaking around the trans. pan. I checked the oil with the car running, which turned out to be perfectly level (not overfilled, nor underfilled). My family lived 2 1/2 miles away down the road.. I arrived.. the trans. stopped leaking, I checked the fluid once more, and it was just the same.
I left the car there that week and took my truck to be on the safe side. Yesterday, I took the car out.. now it hesitates to shift from 1st to 2nd, 2nd to 3rd. Sometimes, not even wanting to shift into 3rd, and not making it into 4th at all.
So far I have replaced the transmission filter screen, the pan gasket, and did a full transmission flush. The trans. fluid is currently bright pink in color and correctly filled. I used Dextron III ATF. The old fluid that I had drained was terrible (dark dark brown in color.. almost black).
No luck.. the 240 is still shifting as last shifting problem as mentioned above.
I looked in the 700 FAQ, and some old posts.. could this be the kickdown cable causing this? Thanks everyone.
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Michael Bilinski '89 244 DL