Q: Truck transmission fluid smells burnt and won't shift out of 1st

asked by on December 22, 2017

A couple days after I had to put our truck into 4 low it started to shift slowly or late, recently it stopped all together, I realized after driving it for 2 days after it stopped shifting it had no transmission fluid. I had napa people put in enough fluid to fill it up and he said the fluid smelt burnt....its full of transmission fluid but is still stuck in 1st gear

My car has 220000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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