new transmission

[john wright]

Chris,
Mike better read the label on the bottle again. I checked with my
tranny man along with several others before I changed and the Mobil 1
tranny fluid is completely compatible with older organic based fluids.
I changed mine 2 years ago (12K miles) and the tranny runs great. Many
other GMC'er have done the same with no problems, but the choice is
yours to make.
- --
J.R. Wright
GMC GreatLakers
77 Eleganza II
Michigan

>
> gentlemen
> i dropped the pan myself and the sludge looked real heavy for 3000 miles and 1
> mountain. the reason why i dropped the pan was last year on the final trip
> over the mountain i smelled the trans fluid burn. i pulled over and let it
> cool. this was prettymuch at the top of the 4000 ft 9% grade up the mtn- the
> kangamangus hwy in new hampshire to be exact.
> i decided to put in a cooler i bought the b& m cooler from summit. since i was
> putting the cooler in i wanted to change to synthetic. thats why i droppped
> the pan. my summeretime trips are precious since i work full time and have
> little ones. i really dont want to breakdown somewhere for a failed
> transmission. so this is the last major item to be done.
> mike told me if i changed to synthetic like one of his customers did, he
> burned out his tranny within two weeks. mike said synthtic trans fluid does
> not mix with regular trans fluid. motor oil is ok to mix not tranny fluid. my
> new rebuild will have synthetic,shift kit, heavy duty torque conv & peace of
> mind. if it were me traveling alone i would wing it.
> christopher
> 75gb- keep on spending
> sometimes i wonder if i should bought a gm4106 or an mci
>
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[bob mclaughlin]

Chris,
Peace of mind is really important and you should do it for that reason
alone. Do one more thing. Add a transmission temperature gauge. I went
over the pass from Jackson Hole to Idaho last summer and about half way up
the tranny got to about 250 degrees and I just shut her down, let it cool
and continued on after some sight seeing. I think it's too late after you
smell it. I'll cross my fingers and hope I get another 100k out of mine.
Bob McLaughlin

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-gmcmotorhome
[mailtowner-gmcmotorhome]On Behalf Of chris ocean
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 1:33 PM
To: gmcmotorhome
Subject: GMC: new transmission

gentlemen
i dropped the pan myself and the sludge looked real heavy for 3000 miles and
1
mountain. the reason why i dropped the pan was last year on the final trip
over the mountain i smelled the trans fluid burn. i pulled over and let it
cool. this was prettymuch at the top of the 4000 ft 9% grade up the mtn- the
kangamangus hwy in new hampshire to be exact.
i decided to put in a cooler i bought the b& m cooler from summit. since i
was
putting the cooler in i wanted to change to synthetic. thats why i droppped
the pan. my summeretime trips are precious since i work full time and have
little ones. i really dont want to breakdown somewhere for a failed
transmission. so this is the last major item to be done.
mike told me if i changed to synthetic like one of his customers did, he
burned out his tranny within two weeks. mike said synthtic trans fluid does
not mix with regular trans fluid. motor oil is ok to mix not tranny fluid.
my
new rebuild will have synthetic,shift kit, heavy duty torque conv & peace of
mind. if it were me traveling alone i would wing it.
christopher
75gb- keep on spending
sometimes i wonder if i should bought a gm4106 or an mci

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[robert neeb]

Chris
Mobil 1 synthetic is compatible with conventional ATF. You will
experience no problems mixing them.

Robert Neeb
Mobil Oil Distributor
78 Eleganza II

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Mclaughlin"
To:
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: GMC: new transmission

> Chris,
> Peace of mind is really important and you should do it for that reason
> alone. Do one more thing. Add a transmission temperature gauge. I went
> over the pass from Jackson Hole to Idaho last summer and about half way up
> the tranny got to about 250 degrees and I just shut her down, let it cool
> and continued on after some sight seeing. I think it's too late after you
> smell it. I'll cross my fingers and hope I get another 100k out of mine.
> Bob McLaughlin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gmcmotorhome
> [mailtowner-gmcmotorhome]On Behalf Of chris ocean
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 1:33 PM
> To: gmcmotorhome
> Subject: GMC: new transmission
>
>
> gentlemen
> i dropped the pan myself and the sludge looked real heavy for 3000 miles
and
> 1
> mountain. the reason why i dropped the pan was last year on the final trip
> over the mountain i smelled the trans fluid burn. i pulled over and let it
> cool. this was prettymuch at the top of the 4000 ft 9% grade up the mtn-
the
> kangamangus hwy in new hampshire to be exact.
> i decided to put in a cooler i bought the b& m cooler from summit. since i
> was
> putting the cooler in i wanted to change to synthetic. thats why i
droppped
> the pan. my summeretime trips are precious since i work full time and have
> little ones. i really dont want to breakdown somewhere for a failed
> transmission. so this is the last major item to be done.
> mike told me if i changed to synthetic like one of his customers did, he
> burned out his tranny within two weeks. mike said synthtic trans fluid
does
> not mix with regular trans fluid. motor oil is ok to mix not tranny
fluid.
> my
> new rebuild will have synthetic,shift kit, heavy duty torque conv & peace
of
> mind. if it were me traveling alone i would wing it.
> christopher
> 75gb- keep on spending
> sometimes i wonder if i should bought a gm4106 or an mci
>
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[ronald b. kazi]

Thank you for taking me on a much needed mental vacation. This type of trip,
though memories is the best type of journey. You get great gas mileage.

Ron and Julie

> In a message dated 5/12/00 12:33:39 PM Mountain Daylight Time,

>
> > the reason why i dropped the pan was last year on the final trip
> > over the mountain i smelled the trans fluid burn. i pulled over and let it
> > cool. this was prettymuch at the top of the 4000 ft 9% grade up the mtn-
> the
> > kangamangus hwy in new hampshire to be exact.
>
> Chris,
> Once again we see large differences between coaches. The Dancing Bear
> crossed "The Kank" as it's known locally back in the summer of '97 with 6
> people, much luggage, (but no toad) etc. Never even broke a sweat. I had
> changed ATF just before that trip, and the same fluid is still in there
> today. (It's due for changing this summer at 10-12,000 miles.) Looks and
> smells OK. I have no auxiliary cooler, 180 or 190 degree thermostat (I
> forget which), original fan clutch (or at least the one that looked old when
> I bought her back in '96). I have a corrected (NAPA) temp sender for the
> gauge, and it has NEVER gone above 1/2 scale nor shown any sign of boiling.
> My transmission and coach both are approaching 90,000 miles. I hope they
> both hold out for a few tens of thousands more, or until I can build my ideal
> tranny. Sure would like to find out why the huge difference from one GMC to
> another. Makes me nervous....
>
> BTW, this post also proves once again that "It's a small world." The
> Kancamagus Highway crosses the Pemigewasset Wilderness and Mt. Kancamagus
> from Lincoln, N.H. on the west, over to Conway on the east. Its lower
> sections follow the path of old logging railroads for many miles along the
> East Branch of the Pemigewasset and the Swift River. These railroads carried
> away virtually all of the original old-growth timber in the late 1800s and
> early 1900s, to build the booming cities of the northeastern U.S., and later
> to produce high-quality Franconia Bond paper in Lincoln. If you look out
> across the valleys of the White Mountains, you will often see what appears to
> be a straight line drawn across the highest reaches of a distant
> mountainside, with different shades of green above and below. This marks the
> limit of economical logging in the day, and old-growth timber survives above,
> while everything below is second-growth. (Only the highest, steepest slopes
> were untouched. Those old boys were good at their work.)
>
> It was the clear-cutting of these forests, and some ensuing wildfires,
> which led to the first environmental movement in this country, and to the
> establishment of the National Forest system. The remarkable recovery of
> these forests, in far less than 100 years in most cases, is a testament to
> the regenerative powers of well-watered eastern woodlands.
>
> On the Conway side, the Swift River Railroad (1906-1916) was soon
> supplanted by a network of small local roads, but its main line route forms
> the gentle grades of the Kancamagus Highway through Passaconaway, Albany, and
> environs. On the western side, the East Branch & Lincoln was one of the last
> logging Railroads to go, surviving in part to the end of WWII.
>
> When I was a youngster in the '50s, spending summers in those hills, the
> last gasps of the Franconia Paper company (where many relatives worked) were
> supplied by logs trucked in from points north. Eventually, economics and
> environmental regulations closed down even that. Again, I was amazed to see
> the Pemigewasset River go from a malodorous sulfite drain, with foaming
> bubbles in the eddies and a few inedible fish, to a clean, cold stream in
> which I swam only two years after the operations ceased. (Building municipal
> waste treatment plants helped too.)
>
> Anyhow, in the late '40s, a route was surveyed to connect Lincoln and
> Conway. My uncle, Ladd Osgood, was part of that survey team, and they laid
> out a beautiful route. It took many years to complete the road, as New
> Hampshire was a very frugal, and occasionally impoverished, state, whose
> legislators met every two years and were paid $100 per sessioin for their
> trouble. (Now THAT would improve Congress, eh?) Finally, in the summer of
> 1959, the road was punched through, and my father drove me across, on that
> last vacation before he died. A few years later I honed my brand-new driving
> skills on its then nearly-deserted dirt surface, and later on went parking a
> couple miles up my favorite fire trail along the East Branch in what is now
> highly-restricted National Wilderness. (Restoring wildlife habitat is all
> well and good, but it doesn't compare to making love on the reclining seats
> of a '67 Peugeot, with the sunroof open to the stars and the East Branch of
> the Pemi gurgling alongside on a warm summer's night.) ;-)
>
> So, I have always regarded "The Kank" as MY road, and no trip to visit my
> numerous relatives in Woodstock, or an old girlfriend (still good friends) in
> Ossipee, is complete without a trip to the height of land, preferably around
> sunset. The grades really aren't that bad, and the steep parts are only
> about 5 or 10 miles each side of the summit. It's all paved now, and they
> even plow it in the winter, so it's all quite civilized. But it's some of
> the most beautiful scenery in the Northeast, not to be missed.
>
> If you aren't afraid of well-graded dirt roads, try the Bear Notch Road,
> which branches off the Kank to the north near Passaconaway. I remember a
> crystal-clear late fall day on the Bear Notch Road, with a bracing wind
> swirling the last colored leaves from the trees while it whispered of snows
> to come, a bright but waning sun inviting me to store its warmth against the
> nights to come. The empty byway invited me on and on, hill, dale, and vista,
> 'till dusk sent me back up over the Kank to The Farm and family, though I
> knew it was but for a little while. That afternoon, to me, has been the
> definition of wanderlust, through all the years and miles since.
>
> Oh, and coming back to GMCs and hills: proud though I am of the
> Kancamagus Highway, it's pretty tame beside Berthoud Pass or Trail Ridge Road
> out in my present neighborhood. (But somehow I love it more... I wonder
> why...)
>
> Happy Trails.
>
> Rick Staples
> '75 Eleganza
> Louisville, CO
>
> "Something hidden, go and find it.
> Go and and look behind the Ranges....
> Something lost behind the Ranges,
> Over yonder. Go you there."
> -Kipling

 

[james melberg]

> In a message dated 5/12/00 12:33:39 PM Mountain
> Daylight Time,

>
>I remember a
> crystal-clear late fall day on the Bear Notch Road,
> with a bracing wind
> swirling the last colored leaves from the trees
> while it whispered of snows
> to come, a bright but waning sun inviting me to
> store its warmth against the
> nights to come. The empty byway invited me on and
> on, hill, dale, and vista,
> 'till dusk sent me back up over the Kank to The Farm
> and family, though I
> knew it was but for a little while. That afternoon,
> to me, has been the
> definition of wanderlust, through all the years and
> miles since.
>
Hey man,

Are you now, or have you ever thought of becoming a
writer? My Grandfather (dead since 1920) had a very
similar gift as yours.

Jim

75PB in MN

PS What are you doing in Colorado? We lived in the
foothills above Coors for a few years. Couldn't stand
it (a loooonnnng story) and had to move back to the
relative safety and sanity of Minnesota).

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