f**kin trans.
 

God dammit okay so today I drive to school. Car works fine, its about noonish. I go through the construction zone en route to school, pull in the parking lot, and step out. This mexican guy is like "you mang you are leaking something, and its baaaad"...Okay so I step out and what do I see? A big steaming pile of transmission fluid near my right front wheel. I fear the worst, but it doesn't smell like it was burned up (which is good). I pop the hood and check the dipstick, and the ****ing pan is bone dry..GOD DAMMIT MOTHER FUCING HELL...I enter Joe Pesci mode. I call my dad up (whos in Florida right now), and he tells me to call this mechanic he knows..I call up, and turns out that guy doesn't even work as a mechanic anymore..SHIT. So I go to the campus CyberCafe and check out YellowPages, find some tow truck service. Call them up, the first one wanted 150$ for towing, so I told them I will call them back. Called up the second guy, they were asking for 75$ plus 3$ per mile. Okay no problem, my place is about 7 miles away. So after waiting not long at all (about 10 minutes), I get my car towed back, cost me a total of 96$. So now my car is ****ed and I have no idea what the **** to do at this point...I checked the underbody but it is just too hard to tell.

Anyone know what I should do next?

Its probably gonna cost you a new tranny.

there there, its ok

hold me, beautiful.

but seriously, i dont have the money for a new trans..fucking hell.

What kind of car/year?

That sucks cock, I blew my trans trying to be fresh in my 1st ever car(killer sweet 1991 hatchback baby blue ford escort) I was so fucking fast and furious biggrin:

You just bought the car, tranny problems are pretty danm easy to spot out on purchase.....

[quote="Short Hand":004dc]You just bought the car, tranny problems are pretty danm easy to spot out on purchase.....[/quote:004dc]

actually the trans was just fine when I bought it...what im thinking happened was i clipped something going through the construction zone and it broke the pan...

hawke: 1997 Grand Am.

Most GM's have a semi circle type bar underneath to prevent damage such as that....I just got back from my friends cottage and I bottumed out twice and that bar cought the car before it hit anything hard.

k ill check it out and possibly post pics tomorrow..in the meantime i have to use my dads van, and lucky for me hes away to florida for a business trip.

If you have a level driveway you could jack up the front of the car and place jack stands under the frame. Then you can crawl under the car and inspect the pan. If you find that it has a hole in it, you can remove the pan and get the hole fixed or replace the pan. If the fluid is coming from a seal, you'll have to take it to a transmission shop.

Re: f**kin trans.
 

don't make me tell you here ffs....just watch American History X or something.

if you not mechanicly inclind then take it to a respectable shop(ask friends and family). Sounds like one of the cooling lines burst. As long as it didn't start to slip you should be ok.

build your own tranny

[quote="Jin-Roh":cb3b9]build your own tranny[/quote:cb3b9]

maybe he can call your dad who is a tranny

yeah thats what I will have to do...

thx for all the help guys :P

PS: Jin, your dad is a tranny.

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Something is amiss here. You drove to school with no problems and found the tranny dipstick to be dry? No slipping problems beforehand? And you don't recall hitting something? It's people like you who run pedestrians over and never realize it.

Ok ok, sounds like you have a hole in a tranny line or pan. Take a looksie and if you can't find the source of the leak, add fluid and run the car to see where it's pissing out. Just don't fuck up the driveway or Dad will be pissed.

If I hit something I would stop immediatley...

Yeah seems like its bleeding somewhere from the side, ill have to investigate further when i can actually lift the car up. Oh as for fucking up the driveway, thats not a problem. Our driveway is so FUBAR'd that a little trans fluid would actually make it better.

leak from side sounds like a trany cooling line. easy to fix

or a drive shaft seal which = hard to fix.