Surely you're about ask: "Why in the hell would you want to do that???"
Well, I didn't want to. I brought it home from the shop that supposedly changed the ATF (about a mile of driving), and right near home, it started lurching upon acceleration.
So I parked it and opend the door. I heard a new, fast ticking noise from under the car. I opend the hood and the first thing I saw was the ATF dipstick laying on the side of the engine compartment. I went to put it back in the tube, and then heard a new metalic clunking (rythmic) from down near the bottom rear of the engine. So I cut of the engine right away.
I pulled out the dipstick to find only a tiny wisp of fluid on the very tip.
IIRC, there's supposed to be some fluid on the stick even with the engine off, right?
[correction: Apparently I checked the fluid with the engine running the first time. When I checked it again with the engine off, there was a little fluid there. So, it wasn't completely dry]
So, is my tranny munched, or will it revive happily when it gets fluid? If it's munched (or its life has been shortened significantly), any suggestions on how I should approach the shop to get them to make reparations -- and what exactly I should ask them to do?
By the way, the shop was closed by the time I discovered the problem, and since it's Saturday I won't be able to contact them tomorrow.
Before I posted, I searched the board and didn't find it, so sorry if this has been covered
The car has 153K miles. It's a '95 Legacy L wagon (2.2L engine).
Thank-you,
Kent