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Dad gave me a 1998 ford taurus SE a couple months ago. it has 146,000 miles on it with the vulcan V6 engine.
Engine: Changed oil, plug wires, and replaced the plugs with denso iridium as they were on sale about 800 miles ago. one of them died, and the 3 in the back head toward firewall looked black/rust color looking. So yea, motorcraft on those... hehe. After replacing them AGAIN, the engine runs fine. smooth, and no misfires. Still gotta get the IAC fixed though. wants to idle too high and drop back down to normal idle when thrown into neutral or park. Got an engine idle overspeed error P1506 code once, but it never returned.
Anyway, transmission: The transmission seems to be just fine, as far as shifting, and it is showing no signs of failure or trouble yet. shifts through all the gears smooth and fine both cold and hot, allthough the engine feels "jerky" when the tranny hits overdrive/lockup going about 40mph. almost like a spark-knock feel. hard to explain.
The transmission fluid isnt pink anymore, its a tan color. kind of like regular oil. As far as the smell, heck I cant tell the difference between burnt and unburnt, but it smells just like fluid to me.
after a little bit about my car, now my question:
Ive seen 50/50 posts about whether or not the tranny fluid gets to this state if its ok to change it or not.
Should I change the transmission filter/fluid? or is it too late? or what.... Someone told me to change it and put some special treatment into it, and others have said NOT to change it, itll hurt the tranny even more.
any ideas? Thanks.
Engine: Changed oil, plug wires, and replaced the plugs with denso iridium as they were on sale about 800 miles ago. one of them died, and the 3 in the back head toward firewall looked black/rust color looking. So yea, motorcraft on those... hehe. After replacing them AGAIN, the engine runs fine. smooth, and no misfires. Still gotta get the IAC fixed though. wants to idle too high and drop back down to normal idle when thrown into neutral or park. Got an engine idle overspeed error P1506 code once, but it never returned.
Anyway, transmission: The transmission seems to be just fine, as far as shifting, and it is showing no signs of failure or trouble yet. shifts through all the gears smooth and fine both cold and hot, allthough the engine feels "jerky" when the tranny hits overdrive/lockup going about 40mph. almost like a spark-knock feel. hard to explain.
The transmission fluid isnt pink anymore, its a tan color. kind of like regular oil. As far as the smell, heck I cant tell the difference between burnt and unburnt, but it smells just like fluid to me.
after a little bit about my car, now my question:
Ive seen 50/50 posts about whether or not the tranny fluid gets to this state if its ok to change it or not.
Should I change the transmission filter/fluid? or is it too late? or what.... Someone told me to change it and put some special treatment into it, and others have said NOT to change it, itll hurt the tranny even more.
any ideas? Thanks.