[V8] Balky Torque Converter

[Ron Wainwright]

Tim, have you tried to add some tranny fluid? 1/4 to
maybe 1/2qrt may have come out when the tranny cooler
lines came. off for the T-belt. Not sure if we topped
it off or not?
But a good flush & cleaning never hurt.

& you maybe interested to get the valve bodie I have
from the 4.2 tranny & swap it while you'r in there.

 Ron


SHHHHHHH!!! my new v8 is doing that now as well. temp
gets down to 20ish and untill it warms up
it will actually stall the car if you don't feather
the gas or blip the throttle. I was going to
run some trans conditioner and then flush the system
and see if it helps. It might just be sticky.


--- Andrew Schlueter <andyschlueter at 4techwork.com>
wrote:

> Mine started to do that about month before it
crapped out.
> 
> Andrew Schlueter
> '90 V8 MQuattro
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com on behalf of Bill
Hitzler
> Sent: Fri 12/8/2006 2:58 PM
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: [V8] Balky Torque Converter
>  
> I may have finally homed in on my balky torque
converter troubles. I
> originally thought it was the tranny but then
noticed my mileage would
> drop by 3-4 MPG when the TQ was balky. At that point
I was looking for
> faulty sensors, though I could never get any codes
even while the car
> was doing this. Quite by accident I found that by
goosing the throttle
> under about 40 MPH while I'm decelerating to a stop
and voila things are
> all normal. So at this point I'm thinking that it
must be a solenoid in
> the tranny and my decreased mileage was from more
friction in the trans
> rather than a rich engine condition. It only happens
until the car's
> warmed up and only below about 40 degrees. When it
gets warm enough I'll
> do some poking around in the tranny.  Thanks for all
the suggestions on
> my original post. William
> 
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