The best way to tell is by checking the fluid. Check the color and odor of the fluid. bright red is OK ,and should smell like unused fluid. A brown color with a burnt smell indicates wear, no good. Drop the pan and see if there are metal filings in the fluid, no good. Slippage can just be an indicator of a band adjustment, and noises that you think are coming from your transmission can actually be coming from your differentials, u - joints, transfer case ..etc. In other words, sounds can be transmitted from one point to another, like putting your ear on a train track when the train is miles away...
If your transmission is manual, you will have to change gear. If it is automatic, you won't.
i am going to change my transmission filter, want to know how
Alot of sputtering of the moter and or smoking of the tail pipe
If your stickshift makes a whining sound in gears, grinds when you are trying to put it into gear or if it slips out of gear you know it is going out.
A transmission is going bad when you begin to notice the vehicle driving or shifting unusually. A diagnosis by a competent technician would be recommended as some symptoms that feel like transmission concerns may actually be engine related.
You might start to notice the transmission going bad when it DOESN'T CHANGE GEARS!!!! That's usually a good sign. Or it may make a GRINDING sound.
when going up a hill you can really notice the gears are jumping when changing. Also the car is also making a grinding sound. Is this the transmission?
Not enough transmission oil, too much transmission oil, bad transmission oil, a clogged breather... all are possibilities.
The trans mission IS probably going out. This is a well know defect in the 2002 Tahoe. Google it.
I do not know so I am going to say nowhere
That depends on what your transmission is. If you don't know how to shift an unsynchronised transmission, you need to have someone teach you, hands-on. You're not going to get it simply by reading about it.
how do you know if you blew your transmission?