jlrosine wrote:
Another question. Do you think I damaged my transmission with the trip yesterday, and being fairly hot for most of the trip?
Possibly you shortened the life of some components. But if its still running and nothing is leaking, I would not hesitate to drive it.
My dad did something similar a couple years ago. My brother's driveway is about a 30% slope, with turn towards the top when you approach the house. He couldn't get the boat lined up, but gave it his best. About 15 minutes of repeated attempts (after a hard pull on the highway, on a 90+ degree day), it ended up puking a couple quarts of fluid out the vent, then was making a whine after it cooled down.
We did a full fluid swap the next weekend which made the whine go away, and the transmission is still working. That was 4 years ago.
