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Re: Light towing with a 700r4
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Originally Posted by Sheepdip
Yep...know a guy that was towing his large boat with a fairly new then truck with a 700R4 trans, it got so hot the fluid boiled up and out the dipstick tube onto the hot exhaust/cats ignited and the whole truck burned up on the side of the freeway. This happening fairly often is partially where the sealed/locking tranny dipstick came about.
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The early ones would also puke out the vent tube onto the exhaust . GMs fix was to make the tube longer so it just ran down the tranny. Fix the symptom not the problem . My truck did it once and man I pulled over quick . Never had it come out the fill tube .
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72 c20 custom camper Husky edition,
66 SS396 Chevelle 1964 Hawk, 63 Avanti,62 lark
1969 AMX ,
1968 c20 stepside ,85 K20
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