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Old 07-01-2003, 07:49 AM
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Originally posted by TE1221
........When I called up initially on the phone a few weeks prior to the job and they said they used a pump to flush the fluid. When I took it there they used an air compressor and shot through most of the lines to flush it out. They claimed that they were just flushing out the tranny cooler but I strictly recall mist flying out of where the transmission pan is. ...........
That does not sound good to me.
I have never heard of that.
Usually a tranny flush is done with a special machine, basically an inlet and outlet tank, that gets connected to the disconnected AFT lines from the radiator. The engine is started and the new fluid goes in and the old comes out.
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