Hello Good People,
Just joined you guys and already I need help, seriously!
Rescently took possession of an '04, sweet sounding Armada and with some recklessness drove it around for about 1 hour with it's transmission fluid gushing out from a ruptured hose at the heat exchanger.
Ignorantly after being alerted to the problem by a passerby, some way from home I was at that time, I mistook the fluid for A/C compressor oil.
The car A/C was not cooling so I was led into thinking that direction, carried away by the vehicles great performance, I certainly was.
The car got me home that day, but I was greeted buy this overheating smell of something that I didn't know; was it the clutch or was it my compressor, fried!!
I had know idea but I suspected the compressor.
The following day I tried to get it going and it didn't move. After re-starting the engine several times it moved in reverse as I had wanted it to but when I wanted to go forward it went into reverse instead and it stayed there.
I later inspected the car and found that a pipe lead from the gearbox to a heat exchanger up front and a little hose pipe at the bend to the exchanger had burst.
Good God,......IT WAS MY TRANSMISSION FLUID!!!!!!!
I've poured in new fluid (to the point of slightly over filling) and still fined that the transmission shifts only into "Reverse" and "Park", NO MATTER WHERE YOU PLACE THE SELECTOR except in neutral, where, if the selector was placed in "Neutral" the vehicle moves backwards.
Mean while, if all this goes on long enough, the transmission temperature rises, up to the point of near over heating, and could well overheat, if I don't stop the engine.
Please guys inform me, is there a kind of "reset" procedure that I can perform?
Or is it that I've no option than to tear the vehicle apart get to the transmission and strip that down also to pry some component loose?
Have I completely blown the transmission to the point that it might need some components replaced or for that matter the whole unit?!
Really I need advice you guys, I feel I've totally wrecked this beautiful vehicle. :crikey:
My aim is to restore it and by thunder that is what I'll do, but man, here I am, in Central Africa, not knowing what I've done or what to do next.
Regards,
Victor
Just joined you guys and already I need help, seriously!
Rescently took possession of an '04, sweet sounding Armada and with some recklessness drove it around for about 1 hour with it's transmission fluid gushing out from a ruptured hose at the heat exchanger.
Ignorantly after being alerted to the problem by a passerby, some way from home I was at that time, I mistook the fluid for A/C compressor oil.
The car A/C was not cooling so I was led into thinking that direction, carried away by the vehicles great performance, I certainly was.
The car got me home that day, but I was greeted buy this overheating smell of something that I didn't know; was it the clutch or was it my compressor, fried!!
I had know idea but I suspected the compressor.
The following day I tried to get it going and it didn't move. After re-starting the engine several times it moved in reverse as I had wanted it to but when I wanted to go forward it went into reverse instead and it stayed there.
I later inspected the car and found that a pipe lead from the gearbox to a heat exchanger up front and a little hose pipe at the bend to the exchanger had burst.
Good God,......IT WAS MY TRANSMISSION FLUID!!!!!!!
I've poured in new fluid (to the point of slightly over filling) and still fined that the transmission shifts only into "Reverse" and "Park", NO MATTER WHERE YOU PLACE THE SELECTOR except in neutral, where, if the selector was placed in "Neutral" the vehicle moves backwards.
Mean while, if all this goes on long enough, the transmission temperature rises, up to the point of near over heating, and could well overheat, if I don't stop the engine.
Please guys inform me, is there a kind of "reset" procedure that I can perform?
Or is it that I've no option than to tear the vehicle apart get to the transmission and strip that down also to pry some component loose?
Have I completely blown the transmission to the point that it might need some components replaced or for that matter the whole unit?!
Really I need advice you guys, I feel I've totally wrecked this beautiful vehicle. :crikey:
My aim is to restore it and by thunder that is what I'll do, but man, here I am, in Central Africa, not knowing what I've done or what to do next.
Regards,
Victor