Transmission slipping

[manlystanley]

Hello Everyone,
My 95 (3.3 L) Plymouth Grand Voyager's transmission is developing a transmission slipping problem. Every once in a great while (like once a month) when taking off from a complete stop the engine reeves, but the van does not move. Then when trying it again the transmissions then seems to kick in.

The van has 139K miles on the first transmission. Also, We bought it with 90K miles on it and I'm assuming that it never had a transmission service.

I'm not sure what I should do? We only use the van 2-3 times a week for short trips (5-10 miles). Should I chance doing a transmission service on this old of a vehicle? Or should I just continue to lightly use it until it dies??

Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Stan

[manlystanley]

Oh, forgot to add: Transmission fluid is full. The color is red (not pink). Also, the slipping just happens when its in drive.

Thanks for your help.

Best Regards,
Stan

[RIP]

Change the fluid and filter and see what happens. I have a 96 GC with 195k miles and change the fluid annually.

[manlystanley]

Originally Posted by RIP

Change the fluid and filter and see what happens. I have a 96 GC with 195k miles and change the fluid annually.

RIP, Thanks for the advice. I've done transmission services on my other vehicles, but didn't do it on my 95 because I had been told that replacing the fluid on a vehicle with such high mileage (with the original fluid) had a good chance of causing a transmission failure.

Thanks,
Stan

[RIP]

I wouldn't use one source for a decision like that. Read up on it. How do you know the fluid was never changed?

Keep in mind too that when you change the fluid in the normal way, you're only changing about a third of it. At least consider pumping the fluid out, changing the filter, check the magnets, then put the fluid back in. If you change it don't use Dexron. Use AFT-3 or 4.

We are talking about the 4 speed 41te tranny right? If it's the 3 speed you can adjust the bands.