A1cntrler
Well-Known Member
Flashback to about 3 months ago. My Trac has about 100k faithful trouble free miles on her. I've done the standard maintenance type things (New Radiator, New wheel bearings, had both exhaust Manifolds replaced under warranty because warped) and nothing really unexpected came up. I'm driving along accelerating away from a traffic light. Fairly busy road with a lot of semi truck traffic and some pretty gnarly potholes from time tot time. Right about the time it comes to shift out of 2nd gear the entire truck lurches and the front end sounds like it's coming out from under it. I look up into the rear view mirror to see if maybe I ran over a 4x4 or a pothole I somehow missed but didn't see anything at all. No lights on the dash and all seems normal. I proceed on with my day.
3 weeks ago my brother and I are on our way home from Home Depot, and the trans makes a funny shift and the RPMs surge up. I asked him if he felt that too and he did. Stopped at a traffic light, still no lights on the dash indicating an issue. Pulled away from the traffic light just fine and once in 6th gear it starts bucking when I press on the gas. I continue towards home (about 2 miles away). My dash lights up yellow and I get the wrench symbol plus the traction control symbol solid. At the next traffic light the trans seems to be in 3rd gear and doesn't down or up-shift at all. I make it home and put my code reader on. Only code I get is that the system has lost communication with the TCM. I clear the codes and start it back up. Put it in reverse and it thunks hard into reverse. Still no codes since I cleared them. Put it into drive and make it about 100ft up the street and it clunks into the gears. Park it and have it towed to the trans shop recommended by my mechanic.
The shop pulls some codes off of it and tells me that the transmission had been slipping into Reverse from Second Gear (this explains the event 3 months ago) caused by a broken internal spring. From my few mile trip home stuck in "limp mode" it burned the fluid up.
Here is the description on the invoice:
So I had a Re-manufactured Transmission and Torque Converter installed. They filled it up with Mercon SP as required by Ford. Invoice says they installed a 6r80 Trans and converter but she says it is a type-o on the invoice. Also I had the rear main seal replaced (might as well since it was torn down anyways.. I did inspect it myself while it was up on the lift and verified it was seeping) as well as had the transfer case opened, inspected and sealed since it was out as well.
The center support on the drive-shaft probably was broken when it shifted from 2nd to Reverse violently shaking the truck. Fun Fact: It's not a serviceable part and it considered a part of the drive-shaft. $834 part from Ford. Also had a core on it so I don't get to hang it in the garage as a trophy.
Just shy of $3000 for the Transmission and the Torque Converter. Has a 2 year/24000 warranty on it.
I don't ever recall the transmission shifting as smoothly as it does right now. It's still going to take a little while before I fully trust it again. I really missed the Trac. Had a 2015 Nissan Frontier as a rental. 1000 miles on it when I picked it up, and it felt like it was falling apart every day I drove it.
Anyways just wanted to share since I don't see many issues with transmissions on here, and that was part of the reason on the time it took to get the work done. The availability of parts for the 6r60 was holding things up.
3 weeks ago my brother and I are on our way home from Home Depot, and the trans makes a funny shift and the RPMs surge up. I asked him if he felt that too and he did. Stopped at a traffic light, still no lights on the dash indicating an issue. Pulled away from the traffic light just fine and once in 6th gear it starts bucking when I press on the gas. I continue towards home (about 2 miles away). My dash lights up yellow and I get the wrench symbol plus the traction control symbol solid. At the next traffic light the trans seems to be in 3rd gear and doesn't down or up-shift at all. I make it home and put my code reader on. Only code I get is that the system has lost communication with the TCM. I clear the codes and start it back up. Put it in reverse and it thunks hard into reverse. Still no codes since I cleared them. Put it into drive and make it about 100ft up the street and it clunks into the gears. Park it and have it towed to the trans shop recommended by my mechanic.
The shop pulls some codes off of it and tells me that the transmission had been slipping into Reverse from Second Gear (this explains the event 3 months ago) caused by a broken internal spring. From my few mile trip home stuck in "limp mode" it burned the fluid up.
Here is the description on the invoice:
TRANSMISSION FLUID FULL & VERY DARK, SMELLS VARNISHED. SLIPS IN REVERSE, SLIPS & NEUTRALS 2ND & 4TH, CLUNKS AND BANGS. INTERNAL TRANSMISSION ISSUE. HARD PART DAMAGE FOUND WITHIN UNIT, CLUTCH, GEAR AND VALVE DAMAGE. UPON FURTHER INSPECTION FOUD BAD CENTER DRIVESHAFT SUPPORT, REAR MAIN SEAL OF ENGINE SEEPING AND TRANSFER CASE SEEPING AT SEAM. CUSTOMER ADVISED
So I had a Re-manufactured Transmission and Torque Converter installed. They filled it up with Mercon SP as required by Ford. Invoice says they installed a 6r80 Trans and converter but she says it is a type-o on the invoice. Also I had the rear main seal replaced (might as well since it was torn down anyways.. I did inspect it myself while it was up on the lift and verified it was seeping) as well as had the transfer case opened, inspected and sealed since it was out as well.
The center support on the drive-shaft probably was broken when it shifted from 2nd to Reverse violently shaking the truck. Fun Fact: It's not a serviceable part and it considered a part of the drive-shaft. $834 part from Ford. Also had a core on it so I don't get to hang it in the garage as a trophy.
Just shy of $3000 for the Transmission and the Torque Converter. Has a 2 year/24000 warranty on it.
I don't ever recall the transmission shifting as smoothly as it does right now. It's still going to take a little while before I fully trust it again. I really missed the Trac. Had a 2015 Nissan Frontier as a rental. 1000 miles on it when I picked it up, and it felt like it was falling apart every day I drove it.
Anyways just wanted to share since I don't see many issues with transmissions on here, and that was part of the reason on the time it took to get the work done. The availability of parts for the 6r60 was holding things up.