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As you may remember from my recent post about spraying fuel all over the place, I have very strong ideas about not letting other people work on my car... unfortunately the wife is not in agreement and hence trouble starts... therefore I have problems 
Turns out, by the way, that the reason my fuel line failed is the smart person doing the lines decided to use normal hose, not fuel hose, for the lines... and in even a couple of weeks they'd deteriorated enough to slip right off the fuel rail!
So now my new Rant
:rant:
had a problem on my way to work last thursday - all of a sudden the auto transmission decides that 1st and 2nd are not really very interesting and that it would be much better if it stayed in 3rd forever... doesn't make for a very pretty away from the lights start - noisy and unproductive. I decide that it may be an idea to run the self diagnostics on the transmission sensors and solenoids - what a pallavah key off, key to acc, into D, overdrive off, key off, overdrive on move to 2, overdrive off rub stomach, pat head, stick head out of left window while performing acrobatics on the back seat etc.. Everything is fine.
So I decide to check the fluid - which I assume should be relatively OK given that I paid an official Nissan dealership here to change the fluid late last year after my wife banned me from doing it myself. I start to search around for the dipstick, my memory was it was near the back of the engine - I had checked it in the past just after I bought the car. Can't find the stick.. keep searching and then get a torch and look harder. Low an behold - the dip stick isn't there - just the tube sticking up with a nice opening for junk and goo to fall inside. My assumption, the morons at the dealership didn't replace it (another assumption which I don't want to go down is the guy who screwed my fuel lines took it for his car - but let's be optimistic about people).
It just astounds me that people can be so negligent... so I have no way of checking the fluid level, but I did check that it was clean and didn't smell of fish which is something I guess... seems I'm not having much luck with the car right now - to top it all some b**** scraped my front bumper while it was parked outside the office last week
*rant off*
Just had to get that off my chest... Fortunately Albert is going to lend me a dipstick to check the level in the short term and I'll cover over the hole with tape to stop *more* foreign bodies getting into the trans. If the problem turns out to be level of fluid then I'll change the whole lot this weekend myself... and change the filters that the masters at nissan said don't exist.
Should be a good enough temporary solution until my new engine comes and I put the manual transmission in the car
Turns out, by the way, that the reason my fuel line failed is the smart person doing the lines decided to use normal hose, not fuel hose, for the lines... and in even a couple of weeks they'd deteriorated enough to slip right off the fuel rail!So now my new Rant
:rant:
had a problem on my way to work last thursday - all of a sudden the auto transmission decides that 1st and 2nd are not really very interesting and that it would be much better if it stayed in 3rd forever... doesn't make for a very pretty away from the lights start - noisy and unproductive. I decide that it may be an idea to run the self diagnostics on the transmission sensors and solenoids - what a pallavah key off, key to acc, into D, overdrive off, key off, overdrive on move to 2, overdrive off rub stomach, pat head, stick head out of left window while performing acrobatics on the back seat etc.. Everything is fine.
So I decide to check the fluid - which I assume should be relatively OK given that I paid an official Nissan dealership here to change the fluid late last year after my wife banned me from doing it myself. I start to search around for the dipstick, my memory was it was near the back of the engine - I had checked it in the past just after I bought the car. Can't find the stick.. keep searching and then get a torch and look harder. Low an behold - the dip stick isn't there - just the tube sticking up with a nice opening for junk and goo to fall inside. My assumption, the morons at the dealership didn't replace it (another assumption which I don't want to go down is the guy who screwed my fuel lines took it for his car - but let's be optimistic about people).
It just astounds me that people can be so negligent... so I have no way of checking the fluid level, but I did check that it was clean and didn't smell of fish
which is something I guess... seems I'm not having much luck with the car right now - to top it all some b**** scraped my front bumper while it was parked outside the office last week *rant off*
Just had to get that off my chest... Fortunately Albert is going to lend me a dipstick to check the level in the short term and I'll cover over the hole with tape to stop *more* foreign bodies getting into the trans. If the problem turns out to be level of fluid then I'll change the whole lot this weekend myself... and change the filters that the masters at nissan said don't exist.
Should be a good enough temporary solution until my new engine comes and I put the manual transmission in the car
