| Trip Report # 2 [message #89500] |
Tue, 22 June 2010 09:31  |
Neil
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Registered: July 2007
Location: Los Angeles and Magalia, ...
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AM in Fort Stockton, the first worry. The trans would rev but not go into gear, then pop, it engaged, and was fine the rest of the day. It is a fairly new Manny trans. The dipstick is ambiguous because the cap on the stick is loose, added fluid, seemed to help. Had this problem every single day thereafter. Once we got rolling, not another problem all day.
Went from Fort Stockton to Houston, to Tallahassee, back to Navarre Beach, New Orleans, Hot Springs Arkansas, Lake Eufaula in Oklahoma (a very nice place), then Amarillo KOA, Bulewater State Part in New Mexico (nice park, but the 12 mile drive off the interstate was tough with boiling fuel and the neighborhood to the park a bit rough, ran fine cold on the way our) then to Williams Arizona, spent 2 nights at the Railroad RV park, took the train to the Grand Canyon and from there back to LA.
Neil
76 Eleganza now sold
Los Angeles
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| Re: Trip Report # 2 [message #89516 is a reply to message #89507] |
Tue, 22 June 2010 12:48  |
Chr$
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Registered: January 2004
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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And the fires in FLagstaff!!!
| WD0AFQ wrote on Tue, 22 June 2010 09:17 |
Neil, you are one lucky dude. Yall missed all the flooding.
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-Chr$: Perpetual SmartAss
Scottsdale, AZ
77 Ex-Kingsley 455 SOLD!
2010 Nomad 24 Ft TT 390W PV W/MPPT, EV4010 and custom cargo door.
Photosite: Chrisc GMC:"It has Begun" TT: "The Other Woman"
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| Re: Trip Report # 2 [message #89655 is a reply to message #89500] |
Wed, 23 June 2010 21:07 |
Luvn737s
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Registered: June 2007
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Neil-
Your tranny sounds exactly like my problem. I add just a very small amount of fluid (like a 1/4 cup) and it engages fine. I did let it warm up in high idle one morning and it engaged fine without it's "fluid fix".
If it was water or engine oil, I might understand adding a little for consumption, but my trans only drips a very small amount (half-dollar sized puddle from the speedo gear seal) so where is it going?
Randy
1973 26' Painted Desert
Ahwatukee (Phoenix) AZ
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