Tranny Problems (plz help)

[SHOmanRB]

Okay, so I know my transmission has been ready to go for a little while now. I live in Madison, WI cuz I go to school there, originally from Milwaukee, WI. I took the chance on driving my car back to Milwaukee to replace the transmission, with help from my father, cuz I don't know anything about transmission work (not yet). I checked fluid level before leaving, and it was good. The original problem was slipping of the gears (kind of a grinding feeling) along with the 'being in neutral' feeling while in gear. I found if I accelerated slow enough and shifted auto-manual the gears shifted better. But when I got to Milwaukee, literally a few blocks from my parents house, the car began leaking tranny fluid, badly. I have a parts car which has a perfectly good transmission in it.

I'm wondering if anybody could offer me any advice that could help my father and I replace the tranny on my car. He hasn't worked on FWD trannys before, and knows its a pain compared to RWD. We have to take both trannys out of both cars, and then put the good one into mine.

Thank you in advance for anything that may help.

 

[SuperHO]

support the motor from the top and rip everything out through the bottom. start with the parts car first, so that way when you break something cuz ya'll missed a connector, you don't feel too bad. also, consider replacing the torque Converter while you're in there to save yourself from having to rip it out again when it fails,

 

[Brett]

As mentioned above pull apart the parts car first. Its much, much different from RWD but its still pretty straight forward. Make sure all bolts are marked in individual bags, its time consuming but will save your life in the long run. For the car with the slipping trans, i prefer dropping the entire sub frame personally. Bigger trans coolers are dirty cheap insurance as well.

 

[AREA 91]

Remember that there are 2 different version's of the ATX in the Gen II's.
1993 year
1994-95 years

You must match the torque convertor to the tranny. The different years have different spline counts on the input shaft.

Try to replace it with the later 94-95 version.
Also get a D4U1 computer if you don't have one.

 

[Wht91+]

Or if you cant do the job, settle for taking it to Doug at Performance Plus. But it would need to be trailored im assuming....