H-E-E-L-L-P!!! BLOWN STICK TRANNY ON 4x4!!!!
Please don't laugh when I tell you it's a Kia Sportage 5 speed 4x4- the trailer it's intended to tow weighs less than 2,000 pounds, and I've towed with its virtual twin over 60,000 trouble-free mile...
Forum Discussion
Francesca Knowles wrote:45Ricochet wrote:
Well now I have to apologize for apologizing. Just can't win some days :W
And I apologize for appearing to demand an apology for your apology! :B
Clarifier on the car here: it's used- 130,000 miles on it. If that sounds high to some folks, it's not really for this car. We specifically wanted a first-gen Sportage for the double wishbone front suspension, modified ladder frame, and a few other heavy-duty features. Kia eliminated most of those features beginning with the 2003 Sportage. It's tough to find first-gen units under about 100,000 miles.
This one's in decent shape for its age etc.- we checked it out pretty carefully before buying.
I think that the plug had probably been badly/loosely threaded on and worked out on the 200 mile trip home. Nothing else makes sense, at least to me...how else could a car with no plug, meaning little-to-no fluid, have gone that distance- and at freeway speeds ???
Really appreciate all the input- thanks!
To answer your question, manual transmissions can typically go more than a few miles with no fluid. Eventually the bearings will warm up and something will seize, which is what happened with you. I've personally driven a FWD car with a hole in the transmission case that drained out most of the fluid for several hundred miles.
With an Automatic, no fluid means no go.
