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- Jun 18, 2013
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- Vehicle Year
- 2000
- Transmission
- Automatic
Hey everyone!
This is my first time checking out TRS, and boy do I have some questions to ask the community about my truck. Let me give a detailed run down of the issues.
-To start, it's a 2000 XLT Extended Cab Sport, 3.0 FFV, Automatic, Two-Wheel Drive with 153,000 miles.
-About four months ago, my rear wheel cylinders popped while I was on the highway, and thankfully I managed to avoid an accident. I rebuilt the rear brakes with new shoes and cylinders, but forgot to hook up the passenger rear emergency brake cable, so for the past four months I've been parking it with full stress on the transmission, no e-brake.
-After I stopped using the e-brake, I started to notice transmission issues. There were really minor at first, a tiny slip here and there, but then it started to get real bad. I promptly had the fluid changed and the filter replaced, and it was like a brand new transmission with no issues at all, but within a month it was acting up again. I have to put in a bottle of Lucas Trans Fix every week just to make the car driveable.
-The transmission is acting in a way I'm not really familiar with. I used to have an Explorer that would slip going third to fourth, but this thing slips in every gear. When I go to start it in the morning and put it in reverse, it won't drop into reverse unless I rev it up, then it'll catch reverse. Once I put it in drive I'll get out on the road just fine, and what happens the majority of time is once I get past about 3000 RPM, it'll drop out of gear then slam back into gear. Sometimes the slam is really hard, other times it is pretty mellow. It does this in every gear, uphill or downhill, level or not. If I come to a stop too quickly, it'll drop out of gear and I'll be stuck until it catches gear again. It usually catches gear after I rev it out a bit. However, if I'm in high gear and I come to a complete stop too quickly, like on the highway, the truck will completely stall out and I'll have to restart it.
-My leading theory is that the main issue is the torque converter. Reason being that I know that an engine stalling when stopping in high gear is a result of a worn out torque converter. I'm also assuming this because the solution to getting this thing back in gear is to rev it out. I don't think that can be the result of worn out clutch packs in the transmission, but then again I might be totally wrong.
Any opinions and insight would be much appreciated, I'd like to see what my options are here. I'd definitely like to fix the transmission and if I do so, fix the emergency brake as well. It all depends on how much this will all cost, if I can cut the cost of labor by doing it myself, so on and so forth.
Thanks!
-Steve
This is my first time checking out TRS, and boy do I have some questions to ask the community about my truck. Let me give a detailed run down of the issues.
-To start, it's a 2000 XLT Extended Cab Sport, 3.0 FFV, Automatic, Two-Wheel Drive with 153,000 miles.
-About four months ago, my rear wheel cylinders popped while I was on the highway, and thankfully I managed to avoid an accident. I rebuilt the rear brakes with new shoes and cylinders, but forgot to hook up the passenger rear emergency brake cable, so for the past four months I've been parking it with full stress on the transmission, no e-brake.
-After I stopped using the e-brake, I started to notice transmission issues. There were really minor at first, a tiny slip here and there, but then it started to get real bad. I promptly had the fluid changed and the filter replaced, and it was like a brand new transmission with no issues at all, but within a month it was acting up again. I have to put in a bottle of Lucas Trans Fix every week just to make the car driveable.
-The transmission is acting in a way I'm not really familiar with. I used to have an Explorer that would slip going third to fourth, but this thing slips in every gear. When I go to start it in the morning and put it in reverse, it won't drop into reverse unless I rev it up, then it'll catch reverse. Once I put it in drive I'll get out on the road just fine, and what happens the majority of time is once I get past about 3000 RPM, it'll drop out of gear then slam back into gear. Sometimes the slam is really hard, other times it is pretty mellow. It does this in every gear, uphill or downhill, level or not. If I come to a stop too quickly, it'll drop out of gear and I'll be stuck until it catches gear again. It usually catches gear after I rev it out a bit. However, if I'm in high gear and I come to a complete stop too quickly, like on the highway, the truck will completely stall out and I'll have to restart it.
-My leading theory is that the main issue is the torque converter. Reason being that I know that an engine stalling when stopping in high gear is a result of a worn out torque converter. I'm also assuming this because the solution to getting this thing back in gear is to rev it out. I don't think that can be the result of worn out clutch packs in the transmission, but then again I might be totally wrong.
Any opinions and insight would be much appreciated, I'd like to see what my options are here. I'd definitely like to fix the transmission and if I do so, fix the emergency brake as well. It all depends on how much this will all cost, if I can cut the cost of labor by doing it myself, so on and so forth.
Thanks!
-Steve
