Auto Trans Fluid EXCHANGE MACHINES-Good or Bad ??

[Pulnaway]

Olred, the flush machines only use like 20psi. Thats nowhere near enough to bend torque converter fins. I would say you already had the chunks. When the flush was done it moved some small pieces through your trans starting the noise. The machines work well for cars that are seviced every 30k. You should never do a flush on a trans that has never had the fluid changed and is coming up for its 3rd scheduled service.

[budnate]

I flush old school style, pop a line at the rad, you need a few feet of gas line a fitting and couple buckets, drop a case of oil in the clean bucket, and the line in the empty bucket, "2 guys fire it up, figure out real quick what line is sucking and whats dropping fluid", hit the right buckets with the lines, at idle, run through the gears a bunch have a bucket watcher when empty shut down reconnect and your flushed. always drop the pan, do the filter and wipe out the pan first.

[olredalert]

------Scott,,,Your message does make some sense as anything could get dislodged during that cleaning. I think my mistake was that I didnt take the time to do the job myself, thinking "well, its just my beater". The dumb part is that I put more miles on the beater than anything else I own. .......Bill S