low budget bracket racing blues

A few ?
Is the black stuff flakes or a kinda pasty stuff?
Aluminum wear can make black pasty stuff and is normal wear of the aluminum fins in the converter.
Little flakes are fried clutch material.
Whining only while rolling is worn planetary gears.

And yes, if you have a deep pan there should be an extended peice for the filter.
It won't matter that much for now though as the fluid level is the same weather the filter is all the way down in the pan or not (But it should have it at some point)

I'd say if the black stuff is real fine and no flakes you should be ok for awhile as you may have caught the bands soon enough.

The band adjustment could cause both, yes.


540demon said
I appreciate you all's input! The whining noise only happens while the car is rolling in gear. Its quiet when its stopped. I dropped the fluid a while ago and there is a small amount of black stuff covering the bottom of the pan. It doesn't seem to be an extremely large amount,but its there. The bands (never touched em before) were way off from their recommended adjustment. Tightened em up,and guess I'll try new fluid/filter this week?

Questions: should there be a drop spacer lowering the filter into this huge pan I got on it?
Would too loose bands cause the slightly burnt fluid and erratic et's?
how bad would it be to run it til the possibly bad planetary grenades?
trying to get all I can outta this thing!!!
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