Driving to work this morning, my car started reving real high and not shifting right. Does this mean my tranny is shot or just the torgue converter. It still shifts into drive and rev. amd rev still works fine. I checked to tranny fluid in the parking lot and the level was OK but there was bubbles on the dipstick.

please advise,
Thanks,
Jason

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1989 FIREBIRD FORMULA 350
K&N, ACCEL CAP & ROTOR,
FLOWMASTER AMERICAN THUNDER CAT-BACK

 

By "level OK", do you mean "between the full and add marks", or "there was plenty of fluid in there"?

The bubbles sound suspecious. That usually means overfilled. How did the fluid smell? What color was it? Has the tranny been serviced recently?

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82 Berlinetta, orig V-6 car, now w/86 LG4/TH700R4. 2.93 limited slip. Cat-back from '91 GTA, Accel HEI SuperCoil. AMSOIL syn lubes bumper-to-bumper. Daily driver, work-in-progress (LG4 w/'87 LB9 block, ZZ3 cam and intake, World 305 heads, Hooker headers & y-pipe, 3" Catco cat & 3" cat-back).
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that happened to me too with my 4 month old(2000 miles) Raptor 350 from www.transmissioncenter.net . and when i took the pan off my filter was cloged with metal.(not good) so i changed it but it didnt stop slipping(but it did get rid of the wining) so i sent an e-mail to www.transmissioncenter.net and they said they had to rebuild it(good thing it was still under warrenty) so i just sent it over to texas to get it rebuilt.

so i think you tranny it bad

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