Analyze Roadside Transmission Failure

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Testing The Transbrake For The First Time! (LSXcalade 4L80e)

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What happens here

On the roadside, the driver expresses immediate concern, stating the transmission is "toast" and that it's "another 4L80 down." He speculates that excessive heat from the repeated trans brake loading, combined with the VSS glitch, might have contributed to the failure. The team jokes about the long, 12-hour drive back to Oklahoma with a broken vehicle, highlighting the unfortunate outcome of their testing efforts.

Goal: Understand the likely cause of the transmission failure and assess immediate next steps.

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Cadillac Escalade — The vehicle that experienced transmission failure

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here it seemed to be fine like the converter locked up and everything I don't know that did it do anything weird like from outside perspective that you saw that's what it felt like like it just didn't it wasn't even hanging on I mean we don't have any drive shafts dangling down or anything just didn't go anywhere yeah that's weird I mean we did load it up and do that a few times but it wasn't like we were sitting there baking it all right P well I will say if this transmission is toast it lived the noble life yeah and it whatever it could have had something to do with what the ECU was doing with the freaking trans brake how it was like letting it go while we were still like letting the 2-step go and having it come up I bet that that made built a hall he might have got too hot I don't know this we'll find out but that's that's why I wanted to do this now because with all of this virus baloney we got all kinds of time to fix it so if I gotta yank this thing and send it back to Xtreme then you know it doesn't matter so we've got time well you got some good footage I'll start right over yeah I wish we didn't we forgot a real number but at least we got both just sucks we got to drive all the way back home for homeland oh yeah did we drove 12 hours out here just just for this and I mean you see we didn't bring a trailer like we're gonna have to drive 12 hours back with a frickin blown up transmission I don't know what we're gonna do here god it sucks I think maybe we could switch off and it's cannonball the whole thing I don't know do that every 85 in Mexico City I mean that that that path tank got us the whole way here so maybe the rest of the half will get us all the way back I don't know I yeah oh no way well you're their regular 127 mean it's thing it's flex you'll is it is that one of those mirages since we're in the middle of the desert Mexico yes this is this is the Mirage this isn't real that is fake that's not that's not on cue a CGI that was a closed course on my PC Xbox in Mexico next - yo mama's house all right let's see if we can make it back 12 hour drive here we go moment of

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