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Diagnose Transmission Failure and Remove Unit

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LSXcalade Transmission Ultimate Destruction + Biggest Upgrade!

What happens here

The project begins by observing the symptoms of the transmission failure immediately after a race. The Cadillac Escalade is shown on a drag strip, after which it's evident the transmission is broken as the vehicle cannot roll backward and requires winching onto a trailer. Further diagnosis by attempting to start the vehicle reveals the steering wheel locks up when the engine runs, indicating a severe driveline issue, likely within the transmission or transfer case. The existing, failed transmission must be carefully removed from the vehicle to access the internal components for inspection and repair. Although the removal process is not explicitly shown in detail, the speaker mentions it took approximately two hours.

Goal: Confirm transmission failure and physically remove the damaged transmission from the vehicle.

Tools and materials

  • Cadillac Escalade Cadillac — The vehicle undergoing transmission repair
  • Car Lift — Safely raising the vehicle for transmission removal. Essential for this type of repair
  • Enclosed Car Trailer Vintage — Transporting the disabled Escalade to the repair shop
  • Transmission Jack — Supporting and lowering the heavy transmission unit
  • Winch — Pulling the non-functional Escalade onto the trailer
  • Wrenches and Sockets — Disconnecting drivetrain components and transmission mounting bolts

What they say

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recommend well that worked yeah whatever was jammed in there got crunched and taken out so I tried to start this thing to have power steering while he was flat telling me and it locked up like it rolls fine and neutral unless the motors running and then it locks up like it broke the strap locked up and park still works so I was really hoping it was a transfer case but it's not because if it was the transfer case we'd be Park wouldn't work anymore so this is not good I've never witnessed debauchery quite like this from a transmission or driveline and failure to the point where like pulling this thing out weird like bust something loose to get it out this is just bad this is a big one let me tell you what we might be down for a bit guys because if I'm breaking planetaries or something major like that they're gonna break in a turbo 400 - because it's the same same stuff so if I need a big shaft the oven that's a big money come on man move your freaking piece of stool transit van well you ready to do some dragon back here at triple7 basically what we got to do here is not get stung by bees first of all but move my truck and trailer out roll the Escalade out and it doesn't move so we're gonna have to flat toe it up the little ramp back there into the building because my trailer is too big to make the sweep to get up the ramp vehicular Tetris yeah see there's the ramp their normal car you could push it up but this is too heavy to push it's terrible it's like more muggy in here than the the spot between your thigh and your ballsack right now well I

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