Re: Life of a Shogun?

In article <Xns999376E8FAD21adrianachapmanfreeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Adrian <toomany2cvs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A *good* slushbox will have a very long life. Trouble is knowing which
ones are good - and it doesn't just go by maker.

Indeed. It seems to be all about the detail design of the installation -
some installations get the cooling and/or service intervals badly
wrong, resulting in predictably short lives. Even those can often be
prolonged by ignoring the fluid change intervals and changing more
regularly - every engine oil change, p'raps.

Cooling certainly is important. I'm not convinced that regular fluid
changes would help - the fluid shouldn't get contaminated. Once that
starts the box is failing. The other thing is you can't easily change all
the fluid as the torque convertor can't be drained and holds something
like half the total.
If you have an external cooler you can sort of flush through all the
fluid by bleeding it out with the engine running while introducing new -
but that's a pretty expensive method. On 'lifetime fill' boxes probably
worth doing at about 80,000 miles.

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