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MY TRANSMISSION REPAIR 8hp90

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Yes, I resemble that remark also ;-) The ZFs are wonderful, technological marvels, BUT PUT A DAMN DIPSTICK IN IT!! My biggest complaint with these cars. Rant over.
Not only can check the level but you can see the condition of the fluid.
 


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Absolutely only cost them 20 buck ! Which I’d be happy to pay…..
 


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No dipsticks except the ones who drive them 🤣

What's your opinion on a "factory sealed" trans?

I can't imagine what the fluid looks like (& smells like) after 100,000 miles.
 


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What's your opinion on a "factory sealed" trans?

I can't imagine what the fluid looks like (& smells like) after 100,000 miles.
I feel like mine needs a service about now but this doesn't seem to be a popular thing.
 


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I am dreading for my first one. Damn idiots at ZF have the fill & drain ports right by the RH exhaust. Put a damn dipstick in ZF! :mad:
 


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you can’t fill it with the engine off, has to be running or the fluid will just pour out. It’s a pain, I had to top mine off after I did trans swap. You have to run it through the gears put in reverse, neutral and hold at a certain rpm to get everything to fill correctly all while pumping in fluid until it drips out. I put my wife up in the car in the car on my maxjax to run through the gears for me while I was pumping in the fluid, she was scared to death lol
 


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you can’t fill it with the engine off, has to be running or the fluid will just pour out. It’s a pain, I had to top mine off after I did trans swap. You have to run it through the gears put in reverse, neutral and hold at a certain rpm to get everything to fill correctly all while pumping in fluid until it drips out. I put my wife up in the car in the car on my maxjax to run through the gears for me while I was pumping in the fluid, she was scared to death lol
What happened to stock trans? No way you should have needed a new one at your power level
 


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What happened to stock trans? No way you should have needed a new one at your power level
Stock trans was a tr6060 😎
 


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Stock trans was a tr6060 😎
Not the normal path. Why not buy an auto car and sell yours?
 


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Not the normal path. Why not buy an auto car and sell yours?
Grudge racing. Never saw it coming.
 


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Not to mention the invaluable knowledge on the platform gained by doing it
 


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Looking back, I should have just went with a th400 with a gear vendor
 




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