ATX TRANNY FLUSH QUESTION HELP!! Kinda really scary

[F-22 Raptor SHO]

Man....nothing is easy for me....Here's the situation (a bit long, but I wanted to give you all the details:

I drained the pan (6 quarts came out)
I cleaned out the pan. Replaced the filter.
Replaced the Gasket and put pan back in place.

Then I took off the cooler and attached a hose to each end not knowing what hose fluid would come out of and put the hose ends in the collection bucket.

I then added 8 quarts to the pan and started it up in neutral. the outlet hose was then evident as about 1/2 pint of fluid came out...shut engine off....then I placed the other hose in a quart of fluid and started again..

HERES THE PROBLEM: Guys no fluid is coming out of the drain hose and the suction hose is not taking any in....wait there's more...so I add two more quarts of fluid thinking I lost pump prime or something..So that's 1 gallon more fluid in the pan than I took out. Now I have 4 more quarts, but man, I dont want to add even more if I dont have to at this point, cause im afraid you all are going to say drop that pan again.

Air comes out of the drain hose and as i gently rev the engine (mind u only slightly above idle), and nothing...air yes...a little spitting of fluid, but not much. eventually it just is air only....considering I thought the stuff would come shooting out, I am puzzled. I have now less than 1/2 quart of fluid in the pan, no fluid coming up into the inlet hose and it has been in neutral, and even park for awhile, it slips into drive and reverse as well, but its as if all circulation is really slow.

DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG?

One slight piece of info that seems unrelated, but can only tell me that it is a bad thing, but when i took the filter out, their it left behind that orange gasket o ring. strange I thought, now the new filter wont fit as it has this o ring in place...I thought about whether to pull the new o ring off the filter and stick the filter in the old oring that is stuck in there, or remove the old oring somehow. After some examination I elected to gently pry the old oring out of that hole and then the new filter fit in perfectly. Was scary at first, but I did get the new filter back in. Also, wanting to be a good doobie, I cleaned everything off with brake cleaning solution before I put the filter back on and the pan in place, nothing major, just alittle goo.

HEEEELLLLLLPP!

 

[ISHOU]

When you say "Took off the cooler" I'm assuming you meant you disconnected the lines from both ends of it. Right? Are you trying to draw new fluid into the system by putting one hose in a bucket of clean fluid and the other hose drains out old fluid into another bucket? I've done this procedure twice;just did it Sunday on my wife's SLO and everything went OK both times. If I were you, I'd hook the line feeding fluid into the cooler back up, put the other hose into a bucket, start the car up in neutral, allow 4 quarts to pour out since my math says you have 4 quarts too much, then add remaining fluid. You handled the filter O ring correctly. Good Luck.Keep us posted.

 

[F-22 Raptor SHO]

IDIOT ALERT!!!!

I posted last night at 9:17....couldnt sleep knowing that I had potentially messed something up....went over everything step by step...red all the flush posts again...Its was then 11:30pm. I had folks I could call the next day to check my work, but I was not gonna stop now.

After close review, I realized that I didnt disconnect the lines from the tranny cooler after all, even though I thought I did. I disconnected the lines to the power steering cooler, which mind you is like right next to it. Now I know I managed to catch the mistake on my own, but Im bummed that I didnt realize it sooner. Now mind you I red a post about a shift kit upgrade requiring a beefed up tranny cooler to be installed, and I thought about that as I removed the weenie sized power steering radiator....I thought, man they arent kidding, this thing is tiny, but having never seen either a tranny cooler or power steering cooler before, I didnt know what I had done.

As soon as I disconnected the correct line, the fluid came out as it was supposed to. I drained 8 quarts out (recall I added 10) then topped it off and went on my way. I like the 1-2 shift better now, but I am bummed that during all this time I have circulated 7 quarts of old tq converter fluid with 10 quarts of Mobil 1 synthetic, while trying to figure out what was up. The fluid in there now looks great, but is a mixture of old and new. But, I do have a nice flushed power steering pump with new fluid. Man that stuff was what was dirty.

Perhaps it is just me, but it seems the 35 mph stomp on it response is a bit off as it thinks about going into 1st but then then decides to go 2 instead. Ive only driven it about 4 miles though, so let it settle in a bit before I make any judgements.

Side bar: Scary thing though as I stopped to check the fluid level at a local Quickie Mart at nearly 12:20 am. I found out the next morning that the Quickie Mart was robbed at gun point about 1 hour later by some masked men. Hmmmm.....lucky they didnt bump into me at that time as I was madder than blazes as it was at my idiocy that I would have squint shoot

Kiddding of course, as I am thankful that God kept me clear of that mess as my day was pretty sucky up to that point that it would have only made things worse....the tranny would have been the least of my worries.

thanks for hearing me vent...sorry this was so long. After stuff like this, it makes me want to change my name to protect the stupid.

 

[F-22 Raptor SHO]

IDIOT ALERT!!!!

I posted last night at 9:17....couldnt sleep knowing that I had potentially messed something up....went over everything step by step...red all the flush posts again...Its was then 11:30pm. I had folks I could call the next day to check my work, but I was not gonna stop now.

After close review, I realized that I didnt disconnect the lines from the tranny cooler after all, even though I thought I did. I disconnected the lines to the power steering cooler, which mind you is like right next to it. Now I know I managed to catch the mistake on my own, but Im bummed that I didnt realize it sooner. Now mind you I red a post about a shift kit upgrade requiring a beefed up tranny cooler to be installed, and I thought about that as I removed the weenie sized power steering radiator....I thought, man they arent kidding, this thing is tiny, but having never seen either a tranny cooler or power steering cooler before, I didnt know what I had done.

As soon as I disconnected the correct line, the fluid came out as it was supposed to. I drained 8 quarts out (recall I added 10) then topped it off and went on my way. I like the 1-2 shift better now, but I am bummed that during all this time I have circulated 7 quarts of old tq converter fluid with 10 quarts of Mobil 1 synthetic, while trying to figure out what was up. The fluid in there now looks great, but is a mixture of old and new. But, I do have a nice flushed power steering pump with new fluid. Man that stuff was what was dirty.

Perhaps it is just me, but it seems the 35 mph stomp on it response is a bit off as it thinks about going into 1st but then then decides to go 2 instead. Ive only driven it about 4 miles though, so let it settle in a bit before I make any judgements.

Side bar: Scary thing though as I stopped to check the fluid level at a local Quickie Mart at nearly 12:20 am. I found out the next morning that the Quickie Mart was robbed at gun point about 1 hour later by some masked men. Hmmmm.....lucky they didnt bump into me at that time as I was madder than blazes as it was at my idiocy that I would have squint shoot

Kiddding of course, as I am thankful that God kept me clear of that mess as my day was pretty sucky up to that point that it would have only made things worse....the tranny would have been the least of my worries.

thanks for hearing me vent...sorry this was so long. After stuff like this, it makes me want to change my name to protect the stupid.

 

[ISHOU]

I'm glad everything worked out. When I saw the power steering cooler for the first time I wondered what it was until I followed the lines.
Did you use dino fluid or synthetic?