Another Saga...
I purchased this 2002 XLT 4.0 in the Summer of 2015.
TLDR; I bought a truck, drove it for a while, now the transmission is getting swapped. While I'm at it, might as well do some PM.
It was listed on craigslist for $600 with a bad transmission but a healthy motor, body and interior. My intent was to use it as a parts source for my rotting 2003 EB 4.6, as well as my girlfriend's 2003 XLT 4.0 and my sisters 2004 XLT Sport 4.0 should they need anything.
I was already ahead when my dad and I went to pick it up because the owner had said that it would not move under its own power but to our surprise it did. No need to use our ratcheting pulley to get it on our trailer, we just drove it on!
Ambitiously, and unwilling to forfeit my V8, my original plan was to perform a body swap to remedy the rot on my 03 Eddie. However a change in jobs in the Fall of 2015 forced me to give up that idea due to lack of time. I decided I would drive the Eddie through the Winter and then sell it. After failing to do so in the Spring of 2016, I decided to wait until Fall (when people look for 4x4s). I had parked both trucks for the summer to drive my Mustang and eventually my Focus RS when it arrived in July of 2016. After realizing that I had put 10k mi on my brand new Focus in just 4 months, I needed a junker to rack up my work miles on. Welcome back, 2002 XLT with a "bad tranny"!
Despite dealing with some shift flares and needing to warm up in the morning, this $600 parts truck drove me back and forth to work 60+ miles a day, 5 days a week, for nearly 4 months. Then one night just around the bend from home, the tranny suddenly gave up the ghost. It seemed to have overheated on the highway and when I got off the exit, it refused to move from a stop. I rolled across the intersection and shut the engine for ~5min. I started it back up and finished the drive home in 2.
So its March 2017, the 02 has been down for over a month. I re-registered the 03 Eddie (thank god no one called on it in the two weeks it was listed for sale) and did I mention...
...I picked up another parts truck.
This 2002 XLS is in piss-poor condition inside and out, but the motor was pulled for someone else's 2004 (lost the chains) and was sold to me for a bargain so that I could rip the transmission out.
3 weeks ago I did just that, and this past weekend was spent pulling the bad transmission from my 02 DD.
But the fun doesn't end there.With almost 200k on this truck, I'm not about to bust my rump swapping trannys only to have the infamous timing chains blow up on me next month. So tonight I start tearing down the motor for some very important preventative maintenance.
More to come....
I purchased this 2002 XLT 4.0 in the Summer of 2015.
TLDR; I bought a truck, drove it for a while, now the transmission is getting swapped. While I'm at it, might as well do some PM.
It was listed on craigslist for $600 with a bad transmission but a healthy motor, body and interior. My intent was to use it as a parts source for my rotting 2003 EB 4.6, as well as my girlfriend's 2003 XLT 4.0 and my sisters 2004 XLT Sport 4.0 should they need anything.
I was already ahead when my dad and I went to pick it up because the owner had said that it would not move under its own power but to our surprise it did. No need to use our ratcheting pulley to get it on our trailer, we just drove it on!
Ambitiously, and unwilling to forfeit my V8, my original plan was to perform a body swap to remedy the rot on my 03 Eddie. However a change in jobs in the Fall of 2015 forced me to give up that idea due to lack of time. I decided I would drive the Eddie through the Winter and then sell it. After failing to do so in the Spring of 2016, I decided to wait until Fall (when people look for 4x4s). I had parked both trucks for the summer to drive my Mustang and eventually my Focus RS when it arrived in July of 2016. After realizing that I had put 10k mi on my brand new Focus in just 4 months, I needed a junker to rack up my work miles on. Welcome back, 2002 XLT with a "bad tranny"!
Despite dealing with some shift flares and needing to warm up in the morning, this $600 parts truck drove me back and forth to work 60+ miles a day, 5 days a week, for nearly 4 months. Then one night just around the bend from home, the tranny suddenly gave up the ghost. It seemed to have overheated on the highway and when I got off the exit, it refused to move from a stop. I rolled across the intersection and shut the engine for ~5min. I started it back up and finished the drive home in 2.
So its March 2017, the 02 has been down for over a month. I re-registered the 03 Eddie (thank god no one called on it in the two weeks it was listed for sale) and did I mention...
...I picked up another parts truck.
This 2002 XLS is in piss-poor condition inside and out, but the motor was pulled for someone else's 2004 (lost the chains) and was sold to me for a bargain so that I could rip the transmission out.
3 weeks ago I did just that, and this past weekend was spent pulling the bad transmission from my 02 DD.
But the fun doesn't end there.With almost 200k on this truck, I'm not about to bust my rump swapping trannys only to have the infamous timing chains blow up on me next month. So tonight I start tearing down the motor for some very important preventative maintenance.
More to come....