Help! 96 Exp Auto Tranny does NOTHING!

[mparkes]

Yesterday, wife was driving home when she lost power on the tranny . Engine could rev up but no power to the wheels. She stops, turns it off, restarts and is able to get down the road a little way but then it starts slippping again. I think its shifting but starts slipping and eventually you have no power to the wheels. We ended up pushing it home. This morning I tried to start it and get NO POWER to the wheels - nothing.
Here are the specs: 96 Explorer 267,000 miles - 2 wheel drive
This is the second tranny, we had the first one overhauled by Scamco at 200,000 miles about 2 years ago. At abt 257,000 miles we started having tourque shudder into overdrive, eventually it refused to go into overdrive at all. Been driving it w/o overdrive for 5000 miles. Yesterday was the first time we had any slipping on the other gears. Thanks for any tips. I figure we will just have to have it towed to a shop Monday. At least I know where NOT to take it... aamco. :fire:

 

[Blee1099]

Will it move in any of the gears other than D?

 

[mparkes]

Nope - Just tried them all, R, 1, 2, D - does nothing.

Will it move in any of the gears other than D?

 

[snowburns]

yep, i was just down this road last month. 134,000 miles and had the same issue....needed rebuilt, cost me 1785 after they towed it from my house. not a fun road, sorry man

 

[mparkes]

Yeah, what really burns me is the garbage job that SCAMCO did 60,000 miles ago - cost me $2500, and it had a vibration at 1800 rpm that they claimed was not a problem. Yeah, right. I took it to another mech and he gave me the same reply, "...not a big deal, I wouldn't worry about it". But to this day I am convinced that scamco did a total CRAP job and soaked us. No doubt the tranny needed rebuilding at 200,000 miles - but now, for the rebuilt one to go out after only 60K miles lead me to think these jerks don't know what the H$LL they are doing. Oh well, we'll get the blasted thing towed and then bend over and grab our ankles for the next total rebuild.

yep, i was just down this road last month. 134,000 miles and had the same issue....needed rebuilt, cost me 1785 after they towed it from my house. not a fun road, sorry man

 

[Blee1099]

The tranny shouldn't have failed ~67,000 miles after a rebuild.. I would definatley take it to someone reputable and try to find out if it was caused by a improper rebuild.. If it was, I would contact the previous company that rebuilt it and have them resolve it for you to a satisfactory level.

 

[Glacier991]

How is the fluid level?

 

[mparkes]

Fluid level is fine - we just had the tranny fluid changed about 3000 miles around the time we had noticed that the tranny was no longer shifting into overdrive. What also strikes me a little odd is that this problem came on suddenly - no warning, telltale signs of gears slipping before yesterday - before that it seemed fine, apart from the overdrive issue.
ALso, I agree with you Blee1099 - this tranny should not have failed, we do mostly highway driving, very little city stop and go (we live in the country) so I would reall surprised that the tran would fail so quickly.

How is the fluid level?