Kind of an odd request im sure but can someone take a picture of the level of there tranny fluid with the car off and cold? I dont want to start the car if theres no tranny fluid in it and im thinking its very low. Thanks in advance!

 

Or even take a quick measurement of how far from the end the fluid is

 

Not a single person who has seen this could walk out to their car check the tranny level with it cold and not running estimate how far up the stick it is then type "About this much?"

 

If there's any on the stick crank it or put more in it ... U can't overfill an auto trans anyway it will just blow the extra out the overflow tube when it gets hot

 

Over filling will cause slipping and over heating is what iv been told in school

 

Try google.

Also your question could get you a myriad of results. You didn't say what transmission you are running and whether or not it is stock or has a deeper oil pan or anything.

 

All that info is supposed to be in my thing like Sleeper's not sure why its not again. Its a stock 700r4 mine is in a 91 camaro with a L98. I have a replacement tranny but dont want to swap if i dont need to yet

 

Ok. If you can't see any oil on the dipstick when it's cold then you'd be safe to put 2 quarts in, just as a general guestimate. then start it and let it warm up and check it, keep adding until it looks about right on the dipstick (should be a hole or something marking operating level....I'd hope.)

 

The very end of the dipstick has a little on it thats about it haha. Im pretty sure the tranny is burnt up any way so i shouldnt be to worried about it.

 

Well, with it being cold that's not an indicator for how much is in there but a quart would hurt, then you can start it and use the pour-and-check method.

 

Yeah i know it should be running in park and warm for a true reading just didnt want to run it to much if the tranny was super low

 

If you check the fluid before starting the engine and the fluid is in the normal operating range, you can add one quart then start the engine and top off the fluid. When installing a newly built transmission, we add 8 quarts, start the motor and add two more. Any more and it will come out the vent. This means on a unit with a stock converter, that when we start the motor, the trans is 4 quarts low on fluid. In this practice, I have never had a trans pump suck air.

The worst thing that happens if you start the engine with the trans fluid too low is that the pump will suck a little air and cavitate. If the trans has high miles on it, the pump is worn out anyway and a little air isn't going to do much to it. In park, at idle the pump is the only thing moving in the transmission.

 

So i put a quart in started it and add another quart then waited about 10 min with it running and checked and it was still low so i added another quart and it was in the hash so i put it in gear and it went right into drive so i put it in park and checked the fluid again and it was still right in the hash marks so i drobe it down the street and it wouldnt shift so i thought it was stuck in first so i went to try manual shifting and put it in 1st and started rolling the slid it into second and it shifted but really slow it seemed so i went back and checked the fluid and it was off the stick so i added a quart and waited a while then checked it and it was low so i put yet another quart in it and it was full again. Still no shifting out of 2nd gear. Tv cable has been adjusted. Any ideas or is it just time to put the new tranny in?

 

Sounds like diving it while it was low, has already smoked the trans.

Time for a tear-down and rebuild.

Generally, the fluid will read at least a quart too high, maybe 2 quarts too high, when it's not running; then the level will go down to whatever it really is when you start it up and the pump draws fluid out of the pan and fills up the converter.

 

Yeah thats what i figured i have another 700r4 that has 100,000 miles on it that im going to swap in while i rebuild the bad one hope it works well enough to last a month or so haha. Few other bugs to work out on the car as well