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Originally posted by kuoh
Did you try disconnecting one of the tranny hoses and running the car for a short while to see if there is any pressure? If the pump is dead or dying, I would expect there to be no flow or a small dribble.
KuoH
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That's not a bad suggestion, but I have a couple questions / concerns.
1. If the flexplate is bad, and therefore the problem is power transfer and not fluid pressure, would the pump turn at all?
2. By even starting the car, if the pump is bad, am I going to spread more debris through the tranny?
And this brings up another question:
If the pump is bad, and spit metal through the tranny, is this something I'll be able to tell by dropping the pan and having a look around? As I said, I heard this noise last night and this morning. Whatever failed clearly had enough time to do it, so if it was the pump, I would expect that it had more than enough time to defile the tranny with millions of metal chunks.