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Thanks so much, guys! This really helps. I want to post a helpful e-mail reply SiLenZe made to me, for whoever else might benefit as well: From SiLenZe: [I] I would get the newest model year explorer you can afford. They improved the transmission year after year. You will not...

P.S. The reason I had to rebuild the tranny on my '93 stick at 185K ... is that the dealership had serviced it with gear oil instead of ATF !:rolleyes:

Hey, thanks all! A few questions in response to your posts: After 1995 there are no more stick shifts? Is having manual hubs dependent on having a stick shift? Can one just change out hubs from auto to manual? Or perhaps with the type of driving I do, auto locking hubs are "more OK?"...

HI ~ I've owned my '93 XL manual since 1996 at 69K, and it now has 199K on it! Nothing major wrong with it ... (I did have tranny rebuilt last year ....) but it's getting "up there" and I'm thinking seriously about buying a newer one. But I want to avoid getting a bad year model design, and...

Update: I'm almost there. The dealership has agreed to rebuild the tranny, and split the costs 60/40 (them/me) ... with parts at cost .... (but I had to make a strong case!) The info here helped - THANK YOU! Now however, they are saying that only the bearings need to be done ..... and...

They haven't yet opened up the transmission -- don't know yet how bad its damaged, or what. After posting this, I found an earlier thread on this site from a certified Ford Technician, Msupertec, who wrote that putting gear oil in would mean the shifting would be harder, which would put...

Any help greatly appreciated! (I'm new, so I hope I am using this site right ) I recently discovered that the Ford dealership put GEAR OIL instead of the specified mercon ATF into my manual transmission, at 97,000 miles (when I took it to them for service). Now, at 182K, I drained it...