Auto Transmission Life Expectancy

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Old 12-12-2011, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by glc
It's 95f, not 80f.
In my 2007 5.4 V8, it's 80* according to my Gryphon.
 
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Old 12-12-2011, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by coobies5
i have 260k on my 4r70w. i didn't get the truck til it had 128k miles on it already, pretty sure it wasn't touched though. at 200k miles i dropped the pan and changed the fluid in it and filter. very very little shavings on the magnet and very little clutch material as well.

i have a larger trans cooler i will be installing, but not until the trans gives up and i do a rebuild on it and flush the lines.
Amazing, and even more so with little maintenance. One way to tell if someone has been in there before you is the absence of the yellow plunger in pan......
 
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Old 12-12-2011, 10:25 PM
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i can't remember, it was at least a year ago.
 
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Originally Posted by Mark Kovalsky
The work around would be a custom burned chip. The quickest way to warm the transmission is to drive it. It takes forever to warm the trans if the truck isn't moving. It also takes a lot of fuel to warm the trans without driving the truck.
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