Engineer9860
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"Burned" or overheated ATF will create carbon, BenK referred to it as ash, but in any event the solid particles that form as a result of gross overheating of the ATF will cause a glaze to form on the clutch plates. Once this glaze forms, nothing will keep the clutch packs from slipping.
Once the glazed packs start to slip this creates additional heat, and more fluid burning, until you have a snowball effect that ends in total transmission failure.
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bstark
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Engineer9860 has come as close as it gets to using the applicable term "carbonizing" or "carbonized" which is the description of a substance containing carbon molecules, having those carbon molecules bonding from the medium of heat being applied.
Not a good thing and also stinks when you sniff the dipstick.
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MuddyPaws1
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PapPappy wrote:
The ATF oil also is used as a medium for the operation of the "torque converter", which basically serves the purpose of a clutch. It needs a special oil that allows a certain amount of friction for proper operation of this drive system. If you were to put something like "Slick 50" in the transmission, you would probably have problems...it would be too slippery, for the torque converter to work properly....like a clutch that is lubricated...slipping
Actually, besides the converter clutch that only comes on at cruise speed, there is nothing in the converter that would burn up if you had more slipery oil. A torque converter is a type of fluid coupling. It works on centrifugal force. In principle, the converter could actually function using water as a torque transfer agent...or even 100% slick 50.
Although Slick 50 does make transmission additives and fluid also.
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