Slept On Transmission Maintenance/Preventive... "Told ya so" and "What's next?"

[silkysmoothyjud]

My ECU is made by Elwesso on this site, please search "NICO ECU." I still wanna keep it. I am pushing well over 350 hp with mine and its lotsa fun!

Wes will custom make one for ya 350$ 100 core return fee. (250 if you return a core)I didnt note the year of your Q. NICO ECUS will not work in 96 or older Q45s due to OBDII....

Please be advised that your car better be in mint running condition to do this mod. It is pound for pound, the best mod for the money.
Modified by silkysmoothyjud at 12:37 PM 6/21/2009

[TBrack]

My ECU is made by Elwesso on this site, please search "NICO ECU." I still wanna keep it. I am pushing well over 350 hp with mine and its lotsa fun!

Wes will custom make one for ya 350$ 100 core return fee. (250 if you return a core)

Please be advised that your car better be in mint running condition to do this mod. It is pound for pound, the best mod for the money.

No s***... I was asking if you were selling yours not where I can buy one.

[silkysmoothyjud]

500$ I will do an ebay transaction paypal secure 100% positive feedbackIt has stage II and a wicked highway stage III that will take your breath away on the highway and eat your back tires when you pull 360s from a dead stop
Modified by silkysmoothyjud at 12:46 PM 6/21/2009

[maxnix]

the engine cooling system is good, new water pump not long ago and never gets hot (other than running it in 2nd gear on the highway for a few miles, got hot quick).

Something is still wrong, then.

Under engine pan? Foam blocks on radiator? Water Wetter? New OEM radiator?

[BLACKonBLACK98]

cooling system is fine.

[apossiblehybrid]

how many miles are on the transmission?

[BLACKonBLACK98]

not sure. the car has 115k but supposedly the transmission was replaced (no records or info).

[maxnix]

cooling system is fine.

I think you would have to define what "fine" means to you when evidence ("overheats in 2nd gear on the highway") indicates it is far from as new OEM functional standards.

[BLACKonBLACK98]

i don't have to define anything but for your sake i shall define "overheating in second": 90*+, redline, 10-15 minutes. pulled over just before the red zone, car cooled to normal operating temperature in minutes at idle.

[silkysmoothyjud]

I know your upset, but we dont want it to happen again. If you flush that transmission and it overheats again......guess what.....Not to mention melting KS....

[BLACKonBLACK98]

i'm not upset at all.

at the same time someone who wasn't there and doesn't know the cicumstances can't really diagnose the situation.

[qship96]

Why would one operate the car in second gear at redline for 10-15 minutes in the first place????? Owner abuse......probably melted the knock sensors during the abusive overheat along with the transmission

[Infinitiguy19]

Well does'nt the ECU cut the fuel (by making the injectors spray less fuel) when you hit redline?

Blk on Blk, WOuld'nt have been cheaper, easier and better to have the car towed?

[BLACKonBLACK98]

Why would one operate the car in second gear at redline for 10-15 minutes in the first place????? Owner abuse......probably melted the knock sensors during the abusive overheat along with the transmission

thaniks for stating the obvious. nothing better to do?

[BLACKonBLACK98]

Well does'nt the ECU cut the fuel (by making the injectors spray less fuel) when you hit redline?

Blk on Blk, WOuld'nt have been cheaper, easier and better to have the car towed?

when i say redline, i really mean right below redline.

towing is not an option for my car short of a long flatbed. the car ran fine the remainder of the way after it cooled to operating temperature so i don't think any harm was done. if so i'll fix it, no biggie.

[silkysmoothyjud]

I think you will be ok, redlined (right below it off and on) my Lebaron all the way to pep boys to top it off (it did not overheat). Quart low....it would slip when out of fluid, but I had a couple of quarts in the trunk, just enough to lock it up in second, to get it to autozone (watch that redline!!!) Front seal leak, you can buy a lot of transmission fuild for 800 bucks!! (cost of said seal repair) ahhhh, college daze...

[paranoidjack]

Honestly, this is boring.

Let's just string him up and throw rocks at him.

People - these cars aren't even worth 10k anymore. They're old and well behind their primetime. Things break, and fewer than 1% of owners have the money to, or care to, restore to "as-new condition." This isn't a forum about how perfect and flawless all of our cars are - it's a forum dedicated to supporting Q owners.

I would think his pre-emptive "beat me up" in the thread title would have loosened a few ties...but I guess not.

All he did was post up (quite beneficially) that ignoring (as I also have, and am now rethinking - THANKS BLACK) members' suggestions to install external coolers etc are a good idea, and it burned him.

He could have said nothing and learned the lesson himself - but instead he posted it on here for others to read, and hopefully benefit from. The same thing happened to me when I posted my foolish experience of cracking up my car after a few too many drinks.

I knew it was wrong, haven't done it since, and won't again. I was merely putting pictures of my damaged Q so hopefully to tug at the heartstrings of any other Q owner that might be as foolish, and hopefully keep them from doing so. Instead, I got only flamed for something I already knew was stupid and immature.

He's trying to help the forum, and all the forum is doing is beating him down for it. Really tasteless behavior, as he clearly stated he KNEW why it failed, and KNEW he was wrong.

[silkysmoothyjud]

I second that. C'mon guys, give em a brake. Those of us that could learn from this experience don't appreciate it at all. We are supposed to be supportive here. After giving it some thought, I think his transmission fluid may have been a quart low, based on my past experience.....Just a guess....

[BLACKonBLACK98]

no need to sweat it fellas. i'm not.

i'll update when progress is made. until then...

[TBrack]

When I first got my car the gears shifted really hard. I got a thorough fluid exchange and installed an aftermarket cooler and everything was back to normal. I understand your situation is a bit different but drop the pan and see if there is anything visibly wrong. Could be something easy to fix you never know

[maxnix]

1.) People - these cars aren't even worth 10k anymore.

2.) They're old and well behind their primetime.

3.) Things break, and fewer than 1% of owners have the money to, or care to, restore to "as-new condition."

4.) This isn't a forum about how perfect and flawless all of our cars are - it's a forum dedicated to supporting Q owners.

1.) Offer $15K or even $20K to me and I'll laugh in your face.

2.) Only one of mine is broken in at 106K. Mine are battle scarred, but internally they are in their prime, I assure you.

3.) Sounds like a personal problem. Get roller skates.

4.) How better to support a Q45 owner than to encourage total restoration by extolling the benefits of a car in such condition? It's like sainthood, you might never get there, but your experience is the better for trying. There is a payoff to doing it correctly. Lookat your own experience.

Redline in 2nd gear is abouit 93 mph or so. Still shouldn't have overheated if the cooling system were up to snuff. Surely 70 mph would have been fast enough?

[paranoidjack]

1.) Offer $15K or even $20K to me and I'll laugh in your face.

2.) Only one of mine is broken in at 106K. Mine are battle scarred, but internally they are in their prime, I assure you.

3.) Sounds like a personal problem. Get roller skates.

4.) How better to support a Q45 owner than to encourage total restoration by extolling the benefits of a car in such condition? It's like sainthood, you might never get there, but your experience is the better for trying. There is a payoff to doing it correctly. Lookat your own experience.

Redline in 2nd gear is abouit 93 mph or so. Still shouldn't have overheated if the cooling system were up to snuff. Surely 70 mph would have been fast enough?

Your points are valid Brian, but again, my point is that most people don't fall into any of those categories. Some do, and some of them are on here, but most don't. Wishing it upon/for them is futile.

[silkysmoothyjud]

First my girl calls her a fat whore, tells me I could do better, and then this. The mistress is hurt.

[BLACKonBLACK98]

update:

after collecting everything i needed and spending a couple days draining/refilling/adding additives at a leisurely pace i finally dropped the pan today. the problem became crystal clear instantly:



"spare" parts. just out of curiosity, anyone know what these parts are? i'm going to go with a rebuilt transmission of some sort and this is the final straw that has pushed the project into total rebuild territory. hopefully it will be done in the next year.

[silkysmoothyjud]

Dam!! That was on the magnet?? I have never seen such a thing. Ive seen metal shavings, but that.....never...

[mista808]

Damn, that looks like parts from the valve body... but how the hell did it make it out of there....?

When I first got my car the gears shifted really hard. I got a thorough fluid exchange and installed an aftermarket cooler and everything was back to normal. I understand your situation is a bit different but drop the pan and see if there is anything visibly wrong. Could be something easy to fix you never know

Ayo btrack, did you install the trans cooler in series? Before or after the radiator trans cooler, or did you just run the trans cooler without the radiator...?

[Jesda]

Since Warren Buffet was mentioned, he drives reliable late-model luxury cars, nothing too flashy. I think he recently traded his Lincoln Town Car for a Cadillac DTS.

I suspect he values comfortable and practical transportation over performance and the restoration of unloved luxury beaters. He's not a hobbyist like us.

It is not practical to buy an old Q45 now and restore it to as-new condition. It is, however, practical for current owners of well-maintained examples to keep them running and restored.

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I hope you get your G50 fully restored at some point. Its a very rewarding car.

[BLACKonBLACK98]

Dam!! That was on the magnet?? I have never seen such a thing. Ive seen metal shavings, but that.....never...

i left my phone and camera at home yesterday or i would have pics of the magnet. i didn't even know what it was for a minute or two becuase of all the shavings and was wondering how a jellyfish got in my transmission.

[maxnix]

Wishing it upon/for them is futile.

As is hoping they might one day be able to grasp the obvious!

BonB, I think we can safely say your RE04 is toast. Call Joe or spend big bucks for iffy results.

[Q45tech]

Over the past 9 years we have replaced about 80 RE4R03A transmissions.As far as I am aware everyone of the Nissan remanufactured units lasted 5-7 years.I replaced mine in 2002 just over 110k ago.

We have seen many local, franchise, and chainstore rebuilds that only last a few years at best.

Those $500 junkyard units are always iffy especially if you must pay the $600 labor to swap multiple times.

We had one very hard headed owner pay us 4 times to swap junkyard units the 4th one seems a charm as it has lasted 7 months so far.