FourX4Luvn
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- '95 XLT
Hey guys,
About 4 months ago I bought a 1995 Explorer XLT 4.0 with 175,000 miles on it. Everything was great until about 3 weeks ago, when the transmission developed shifting problems, and the O/D off light started flashing. I read in the manual that it should be taken in immediately. I work nights and am generally asleep when the shops are open, so I had my wife take it down for me. They ran the code and came up with 'excessive torque converter slippage'. Mechanic said new T/Q and trans was needed. She ok'd it
I get the truck back and the shifting problem is gone, but the light is still flashing. A new TPS fixed that issue. Approx. 800 miles later the trans refused to go into any forward gears without about a 10 second pause. Reverse worked as it should. I checked the fluid. About twice the amount that it should have in it. It also smelled BADLY of hot metal. Well, the trans has 30,000 mile warantee on it, so I have the wife take it back. This time the mechanic says the intermediate band is fried, but that it fried because I abused it and tried to refuse to warantee the repair. When I get up, I call him and we argue, he ends up backing off and warantees it. Now, less than one tank of fuel later, the problem is back! So, I check the fluid, and again it's about twice what it should be! WTH? No burned metal smell this time though, at least.
The warantee is through Ford, so I'm afraid that I won't get anything covered unless I take it to a Ford dealership, but I'll be damned if I'm letting the local one touch my truck again. The next nearest dealer is just under 100 miles away. I'm not a mechanic, but I do have a decent selection of tools and I am very mechanically inclined and can follow instructions from a book or such quite well. Is there anything that you guys can think of that I could do myself? Something to test or replace? Or...? I'm sure that having so much excess fluid in there isn't a good thing. (Yes, I checked it with engine warm, idling in park, after running it through all the gears) So I'm sure I should probably drain and refill it. Other than that, though I don't really know what to do.
I know that there is a wealth of information out there for this trans, and I apologize if I've missed a post that covers this. I have done some searching, but I've not found what I need to know so far, and I really want some answers quick before I end up destroying the trans worse. So, I apologize if it seems that I'm looking for handouts. I'm not, I just want to get it fixed quickly, as this month I'm going to be putting on a LOT of miles starting this weekend.
I've been tempted to just swap transmissions for something beefier, but judging from all the complaints I see, and people trying to fix theirs it would seem that a quick, easy conversion doesn't exist. Except for the transmission, the rig is nearly mint condition, so I don't want to sell it and get something else as a friend of mine suggested.
Please help?
Thank you very much for your time!
About 4 months ago I bought a 1995 Explorer XLT 4.0 with 175,000 miles on it. Everything was great until about 3 weeks ago, when the transmission developed shifting problems, and the O/D off light started flashing. I read in the manual that it should be taken in immediately. I work nights and am generally asleep when the shops are open, so I had my wife take it down for me. They ran the code and came up with 'excessive torque converter slippage'. Mechanic said new T/Q and trans was needed. She ok'd it
I get the truck back and the shifting problem is gone, but the light is still flashing. A new TPS fixed that issue. Approx. 800 miles later the trans refused to go into any forward gears without about a 10 second pause. Reverse worked as it should. I checked the fluid. About twice the amount that it should have in it. It also smelled BADLY of hot metal. Well, the trans has 30,000 mile warantee on it, so I have the wife take it back. This time the mechanic says the intermediate band is fried, but that it fried because I abused it and tried to refuse to warantee the repair. When I get up, I call him and we argue, he ends up backing off and warantees it. Now, less than one tank of fuel later, the problem is back! So, I check the fluid, and again it's about twice what it should be! WTH? No burned metal smell this time though, at least.
The warantee is through Ford, so I'm afraid that I won't get anything covered unless I take it to a Ford dealership, but I'll be damned if I'm letting the local one touch my truck again. The next nearest dealer is just under 100 miles away. I'm not a mechanic, but I do have a decent selection of tools and I am very mechanically inclined and can follow instructions from a book or such quite well. Is there anything that you guys can think of that I could do myself? Something to test or replace? Or...? I'm sure that having so much excess fluid in there isn't a good thing. (Yes, I checked it with engine warm, idling in park, after running it through all the gears) So I'm sure I should probably drain and refill it. Other than that, though I don't really know what to do.
I know that there is a wealth of information out there for this trans, and I apologize if I've missed a post that covers this. I have done some searching, but I've not found what I need to know so far, and I really want some answers quick before I end up destroying the trans worse. So, I apologize if it seems that I'm looking for handouts. I'm not, I just want to get it fixed quickly, as this month I'm going to be putting on a LOT of miles starting this weekend.
I've been tempted to just swap transmissions for something beefier, but judging from all the complaints I see, and people trying to fix theirs it would seem that a quick, easy conversion doesn't exist. Except for the transmission, the rig is nearly mint condition, so I don't want to sell it and get something else as a friend of mine suggested.
Please help?
Thank you very much for your time!
