okay i will try my hardest to explain what is happening so that somebody can help me out. For the last few days when i accelerate from a stop it feels as if my rear end is slipping. Tranny? Maybe. I looked at my tranny fluid and it was pretty low so i added about half a quart. Starting today it increased doing this and continues to have almost a - pulsating slip-? throughout the powerband and into third gear. almost as if there is something wrong with the engine? the only reason i think it isnt the transmission is because whenever my tranny has slipped in the past, my revs go really high and then it catches, and i jolt forward. this was only a problem in first gear though. "pulsating slip" is the only way i can describe this because its feels like a bunch of small slips. i would take it to a mechanic but i dont know of any trustworthy ones in my town so i figured id put it up here first. think its time to start saving for a new tanny? oh and by the way its a 97 4runner with 4wd and 100,000 miles.

 

100K miles eh? When was the last time the tranny filter was changed? generally a 'slip' in an auto tranny indicates low fluid pressure. Torque Converters usually don't go bad unless you really hammer on them.

 

How does the AT dipstick smell? Seriously.

 

the fluid was down that much because i rolled the truck a few months back and it was upside down for about ten minutes and im assuming that a lot of it drained out. hmmm i havent sniffed my dipstick recently hehe... is there a smell i should be aware of? but it really does slip all the way through the powerband and in all gears. usually when a tranny slips its in just one gear to start with right? and if i am coasting at about 40-50 and lightly gas it, the car kinda knocks. im really confused about what it can be. i put it in neutral and revved it a lot to see if the engine was messed up and misfiring, but it seemed normal. also anyone know of any good trustworthy mechanics in the albuquerque area? i dont really trust people around here....

 

I had the same prob...
The shop took care of it when i told them...
It was just the tranny, might have been fluid or filter
It was kinda cool. It was a big adrenalin rush when it happened to me. lol
-mike

 

what was cool, did you roll too? or was the knocking cool? or when they fixed it was is cool because that would be the coolest. haha which one were you referring to?

 

"when i accelerate from a stop it feels as if my rear end is slipping"
That was cool...-mike

 

and getting if fixed, i guess, lol
-mike

 

oh. yeah i guess. im just worried about how much its gonne cost me to fix it. trannies are expeeeeeeeeeensive.

 

u wont need a new one...
i got it done w/ a buch of stuff too, so the price was hidden in there
-mike