From: Bill (bill@welovenh.com)
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 17:40:21 PDT
Sounds like your preacher is getting hosed.
First off, if he went to a Ford dealer it would have been more money up
front but they would have a 12 month warranty on the repair so any
subsequent failure would have been covered in the time frame
I believe some national chains or franchises have somewhat the same
length warranty.
When you indicated repairs you did not state whether it was a factory
rebuilt trans or whether the local shop made the repairs.
What does the ATF (automatic transmission fluid) look and smell like?
There is alot more diagnostic info that is needed that was not provided.
A guess....
Either the internal repairs are faulty, the reinstallation of the trans
is faulty, or flushing of the trans cooling system after the first
repair was not performed and the system has been recontaminated by "goo"
from the first failure.
To get this done right the next time I would go to a Ford dealer and ask
for an opinion or diagnosis as to what is wrong. They may do the
diagnosis for free or charge a minimal time charge but then you will
know for sure.
Bill
aussierob wrote:
> Hey Listers... with ANY Late model Tranny
> knowledge and or experience.
> This is for a couple... friends of ours.
> He is a fulltime pastor for a small church in upstate NY.
> They/she, is a foster mum with 3 mentally handicapped
> middle aged men, to look after 24/7 year round
>
> This is off topic.
> But hey, if at all possible, we're needing your smarts
> here, not any off topic finger wagging
>
> Three times in the last 12 months they have put
> out $15 to $17 hundred dollars, for their
> 97 Ford Venture Family mini van and
> Shut-ins Transport Vehicle.
>
> It's always the same Tranny Problem
> Two repairs were from different local small town companies !
> One was a repair was performed from a Church
> member/mechanic.
> (I would ex-communicate him... Ha ha)
>
> The problem, each tranny fails at around 6
> months or less.
> It will run !
> But, only in 1st. - 2nd. - 3rd. !
> But, without warning, it will not move in 4th.
> By the way, 4th is not circled ...so, not an overdrive !
> Same symptom each time.
>
> They still owe approx $5 thousand on the van. (it's immaculate)
> Of course, each repair came with a short time limited warranty.
>
> This is far too short term, if you ask me !
> (and nobody's askin - right !)
>
> Some Questions:
> Does this tranny have an electronic shifter
> system of some sort . Could this be as simple as a
> tranny circuit board.?
>
> It would seem that there are no worn out metallic
> noises and/or bad metal grinding sounds, before each failure !
>
> Guys with real modern automatic tranny info/experience
> or a link to some info ...could you please reply.
> Would there be a factory service bulletin on this ?
> Are the repair guys ripping of the preacher
> Any Help would be appreciated online or offline
> Aussie Robb Syracuse, NY area.
> aussierob2@odyssey.net
>
> The owner is at
> sweeneyjps6@cs.com
> Rev. James Sweeney, 8 mi west of Marathon NY - area
>
>
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