and of course, napa lied on their website. the store closed at 6 instead of 7. :(
have to wait until tomorrow to get a trans filter kit.
i could have been done tonight and test driving it already.
Okay everything is put back on it. The only thing I have to do now is pull the transmission pan and put a new filter in the thing before I fill it up with fluid.
Okay some good news. After clearing the codes because I'm an idiot and didn't make sure one of the connectors was clicked in all the way, I recycled the power on the Jeep and it comes up with no error codes in either the ECU or the tcu. Yes I know, it's the same damn module, but it split...
dead trans has 140k. VLP trans came out of a 174k vehicle, so maybe it's that used? it worked great on the drive back from storage, and I sent a sample of fluid off to blackstone-labs to get a reading on the internals. it didn't look great, but unlike the 140k trans, it didn't smell bad and...
blowed up trans: Transmission: DG6 - 4-SPD. AUTOMATIC 42RLE TRANSMISSION
working trans: Transmission: DGV - 4-SPD. AUTOMATIC VLP TRANSMISSION
according to vindecoderz
how screwed am I?
done taking **** out.
tomorrow I put **** back in.
broke down and bought a HF trans jack. trying to lift the trans back in place with regular jacks is sketchy. down was bad enough.
it's been in the air since the day after.
i'm 9.75 bolts away from having the trans out:
4 bell housing bolts
5.75 cross member bolts
already backed off and reinstalled the cross member ones, but one of them broke off the tip. interestingly it still grabs threads and makes like a bunch of...
Towed the broke ass Jeep into the garage using electric fiat.
Now I can start pulling the transmission out of it. And start installing the replacement.
While investigating why I now have two wheel speed sensors out, I've discovered that a good portion of my passenger frame rail as decided exit the chat. I touched the rusty spot and a good foot of the rail fell out of the car.
and now I have 2 wheel speed sensors out.
left front is a stored code.
right rear went active on the drive today.
which means, no cruise control.
guess I'm fixing them tomorrow.
AND!
An unintended test of the Vredestein Pinza AT in the snow/slush/ice.
Granted we only got 1"-2" of wet melty slushy snow, so nothing killer. Some of the roads though have some ice on them. For an AT all season tire, they did quite well. Only had the plow on the front. Didn't load up...
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