Recent content by Dragon Tyro

The technician was actually surprised; the 340 transmission is usually pretty bulletproof, so the speculation is that it was a manufacturing defect in this lot. As for the benefits of rebuilding over replacing with a used one, everyone had an opinion or advice for me before I had the service...

Also, this was not caused by overheating, you could still see the stamping on the clutch plates.

Oh, the delayed 1-2 shift was stuck valves from the metal filings...

OD off buys time, but there's still a negative effect. So far this AAMCO seems legit, they showed me the parts; the OD was shredded and it would have happened anyway. Bottom line, if you hear something, don't wait. Rebuild with new OD gears is $2900 here.

Diz, Don't wait, driving it like that tore up the overdrive, disengage the thing and take it now, or it will cost you more. I just got off the phone and they're having to do extensive repair to the OD, I don't know the cost yet. It was the sprag...

Well, the assessment before they opened it up (last Friday) was that a (the) sprag was "gone" and that I needed a complete rebuild ($2200-$2800). I haven't heard any more yet. I am taking that as good news, as if there were more to that estimate they'd have called for approval; unless they...

It's all academic now, broke down on the commute to work. I'll let you know soon as I find out from AAMCO.

What's odd is if I turn off the OD I don't hear this noise at all...

It may be 2nd, I'll check in the morning if it's cold enough. When I said blowing on the 2nd problem, I meant it as an approximation of the sound. Oddly I only hear it in the cab, if I roll down the window, I don't hear anything unusual. I have done a service so it isn't low/old fluid. It...

I have a 2001 4Runner, about three weeks ago I started having two separate issues with the transmission. The first issue is that when it's cold it doesn't shift out of first until the transmission is warmed up. It's never done this before, but I read on the forums that this is more or less a...