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Haha. No, everything seems dry & clean.....just trying to look on the bright side.

Ok, so I dropped my tranny oil pan (Much bigger job than I ever expected), drained all the fluid, replaced the filter & topped off with 5 qts. Valvoline Max Life Full Synthetic & 1 qt. Lucas stop slip in addition to installing an aftermarket cooler. I started it up & everything seemed to shift fine. I drove the pathy about 2 miles & stopped in a parking lot only to find reverse once again wasn't engaging. I drove it back home (2 miles) went to park it & tried one more time.....reverse works again. I then shifted several times reverse, neutral, drive & back. all gears were engaging as they should. I then put it into reverse & gave it throttle with the brake on as to try to make it slip, which it never did. It only pushed through the brakes, and started smoking the tires in reverse. I'm kinda at a loss, could a valve be be getting stuck & freed? Do the solenoids go out intermittently? You guys are great & I appreciate any help!

I know 10w30 is recommended in a 3.0 pathy. Does anybody use 5w30 in the summer? What about additives like Lucas?

I broke that too. Its what holds the last screw for the timing belt cover under the harmonic balance. Its the only one that uses a shorter stew. If you put the longer bolt in & tighten your harmonic balance down, snap goes the metal. I like to think it helps oil & debris to was out from around the timing belt now

Thanks Precise. As per my original question, any other recommendations to hopefully get several more miles out of my old wore out tranny?

SkiBum, I was looking into an xterra tranny. Will these bolt up? all electronics fit?? If I have to replace, I'm all about an upgrade.

I've got a '95 pathy 4wd auto with 180k that I've owned for 3 months & I'm dealing with the dreaded transmission issues. I was driving down the road the other day & my pathy seemed to develop what I perceived as a small miss at around 45 with OD on. As I was accelerating on to the interstate, I had almost a complete loss of power. I pulled over on the on-ramp & reversed back down to turn around at the first filling station. I gingerly drove home, six miles, with no issues at low RPM. I went to park it at the house, no reverse! After checking the fluid, I found it was an inch or so high on dipstick. It was pinkish-brown with no "frothy residue". The fluid was lukewarm, and doesn't smell burnt or have particles in it. The next day, fearing the worst I checked the codes, only registering an EGR function code.I tried putting it in reverse....and it worked, no problem! I wondered if my factory cooler was stopped up, so I bought a 18gvw remote cooler. When I removed the lines, absolutely no fluid came out of the stock cooler, only some from the lines. If this were clogged, would this not allow enough pressure to kick it into reverse? I also plan to change my tranny filter & replace the fluid in the pan with Valvoline Max Life Dex. Should I worry about the solenoids? I'm trying to do what I can as to not drop the tranny, let me know what else I should do.