What fluid did you use? You can get some funky shifting behavior if you use the wrong fluid.
OK, the Supertech oils are usually pretty trustworthy, and DexIII is the correct oil.I used the cheap Dex III stuff from Wal-Mart.
<shrug> He dropped the pan -- it's not all that hard to disturb the linkages when you do that. It's also an easy thing to check and rule out.If this just showed up after the fluid change, then I doubt it has anything to do with the shift linkage. It sounds like the trans pressure is too low now for some reason or one of the valves in the valve body is sticky which is causing this delay from R to D. This sometimes happens with a flush. Are any of teh other shifts abnormally soft feeling?
I would try something like Seafoam Trans-tune to try to clean up the valve body a bit more. This might involve adding it the the trans after a warm-up driving period, and then sitting there in your driveway for 1/2 hr manually shifting thru the gears to get the additive circulating thru the valve body. Your other choice is to probably drop the valve body and rebuild it, polishing all of the valves and replacing check balls; not for the faint hearted, but doable.
dave mc
So I recently did the A/T tranny flush found in the DIY (dropped the pan, replaced gasket, pulled cooler line and dumped ~6 qts thru the dipstick) on my 92 Camry with 190k miles. Fluid was black! After 6 qts. is barely started to show thru some red color.
Now when I back out of my garage (cold) and go from REV to DRIVE the tranny hesitates for about 1-2 sec. before engaging into drive.
Is this a sign of bad things to come? Is there anything I can do at this point?
-Regretful Flusher in AZ :headbang: