I've never heard of this before, but this is what the tranny shop said. Actually this is the second time it's been killed by electricity. They said the first time they put a ground wire coming from the tranny, and this time they put some more along with one more coming off the starter.

Has anybody ever heard of this before?

 

I have heard of shift cables frying due to lack of a ground strap from the engine to the body, but not the whole transmisison. That seems pretty far fetched.

 

I've seen it happen in a Ford truck. Only takes a couple of bad spots to start putting metal through everything.

 

That's ridiculous.

When a trans is bolted to a motor, it's electrically connected all the way around the bell housing, by the bolts and by the metal-to-metal contact. It's totally inconceivable that anything electrical could "kill" a transmission anyway, except for the TCC not being able to engage.

Sounds to me like somebody its really reaching for anything to weasel out of a warranty claim. "Hmmm let me look at my Excuse Of The Day calendar. Planetary alignment... interference from satellite debris.... no, sunspot activity... yeah, that's it (in Moe voice) Sunspot activity! That's the ticket!"

They're yanking you.

 

RB... uhh... you need more to do, lol

 

i took my 95 astro to a local aamco shop, basically just out of curiousity. I knew exactly what was wrong with it, but everyone i know holds aamco at such high regard, so i figured i'd see how good they are

They diagnosed the problem as the torque converter went bad. close; actually the tcc silonoid died.

They wanted about 2 grand to rebuild the entire trans and replace the converter. I pretended to be an idiot and asked if i could just replace the torque converter myself.

They said "oh no, there's so much electronic stuff in there you'd just screw it up. You need to do this all the time to do it right".

Yeah ok, theres 1 large weather pack connector, and a speedo connector that you simply disconnect before pullin the trans. It was funny cause they even sent me a letter warning me not to pull the trans myself and even enclosed a 10% discount card. Wow, $1800 instead of $2000 to fix a tcc silonoid.

So $50 later i had the problem solved. I'm always weary of trans shops after that, i guess they think nobody knows anything about transmissions so they can get away with stuff like that. I guess that is true for the most part though...