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It’s the time of year when I start to expound on the virtues of taking good care of your automatic transmissions, and be prepared for the hot weather coming up. Taking care of your transmissions and the surrounding team members can save a bunch of money, and the pain and frustration of having to purchase replacement automatic transmissions.
I live in Florida and can speak with confidence on the problems heat can cause an under-maintained transmission. Heat does a real number on a transmission even if it is in good health and well maintained, so service work in a hot climate should be performed before the really intense heat arrives. Once it is here it may be to late, and no-one likes sitting on the side of the road for a few hours waiting for a tow truck in 95 degree weather.
Even with proper maintenance your transmissions cooling systems are under great duress trying to keep both the engine and transmission cool and operating at the proper temperatures. Did you know that ATF or automatic transmission fluid can catch fire if the cooling system fails and causes the engine and transmission to overheat.
The transmission cools through either or both: the engines radiator first, and possibly an auxiliary cooler before the ATF returns to the transmission about 20 degrees cooler. A few cars only use an auxiliary transmission cooler. By having a radiator in line with the transmission cooling system we have a device that stabilizes both engine temperature and transmission temperatures in all operating range, all the time.
One of the ways manufacturers and smart transmission people combat high temperatures is to use synthetic transmission fluids. Synthetic transmission fluids can take as much as 400 degrees of heat before they ‘break down’. It is very unlikely that having a transmission fluid failure and a subsequent transmission failure will happen if you use synthetics.
Did you know conventional oils and transmission fluids can start to break down at about 220 to 240 degrees and boil at 270 degrees? That is not a lot of working leeway considering your engine and transmission operate at about 200 to 220 degrees almost all of the time.
Don’t take my advise, take the advise of plenty of auto owners who spent a small fortune replacing their transmissions because it was a pain in the butt to take the time to have their transmission serviced.
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