I was traveling down Interstate 10 at 70mph, and needed to switch lanes because a car was on my tail. As soon as I stepped on the accelerator, the RPM spiked from 2500 to 6500rpm while the car was slowing down (from 70 to 60). (This was on an incline on a very high bridge in New Orleans
). It's very dangerous since there is no shoulder and the very steep incline claims many breakdowns almost daily. I stopped immediately right before the shoulder lane ended, cycled through all the gears, and backed my car down from the bridge to take a longer route on another bridge. I brought the car back up to 70mph on the way home and it seems fine, but I am hesitant to take it out to work tomorrow...
I checked the fluid a moment ago. The fluid is still clear red and levels are good. It's been about 60k miles since the last drain/fill. Car has about 185k miles.
Is there anything else I can do? I planned on changing the tranny fluid when Spring came around but I'm guessing the service will be done asap. I will switch to synthetic since I purchased a pro-king tranny filter kit and 12 quarts of Royal Purple Max Synthetic ATF about 2 months ago. I hoping the worse case scenario is that the torque converter would need to be change..
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