A604 resources (was Re: IML: IML. Spotted one (1991?))

["David Whitney" <david.whitney@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are many resources for Imperial owners "afflicted" with an A604
transmission.  Here are some I have used with great success.  Whatever you
do, don't fall for the old "it's gotta be rebuilt" line.  There are many
intermediate steps you can take.  However, if you car has 100k+ miles and
you want to drive another 100k, I say why screw around?  It's not a
torqueflite, so don't expect that level of performance.

http://www.allpar.com/fix/trans.html -- this is a good overview.  There are
more specific pages you can link to from the Transmissions section of
http://www.allpar.com/fix.html

To bond with fellow sufferers, join
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler-MoparTransaxle

For a schematic of how it all fits together including part numbers,
http://cloud.prohosting.com/davenger/a604digrams.html

I knock on wood daily, as my A604 has nearly 170,000 miles and going strong
on 7176 fluid ONLY!  Truth is, this transmission is not as much of a dog as
many people say.  Chrysler's worst is still pretty good, and hundreds of
thousands of owners have this transmission and don't even know about its
reputation because they've never had any trouble with theirs.  If CC had
just not put that stuff about Dexron in the service manuals and not put
"Dexron" on the dipstick, they could have saved themselves a lot of grief.
As stated earlier, it's not a torqueflite and you can't beat the crap out
of it and expect it to live.

-- David
'91 K-Imperial driver
'66 Crown Coupe project
'66 Newport 383-4bbl .030 over dual exhaust Eddys/B&M/Cragars daughter's
first Mopar
'70 New Yorker "Mellow Yellow" for sale $1600




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