schmanman

I have a 2002 supercrew, and withing the past few days my transmission has been acting up. I think I need to top off or replace my fluid, or possibly have my trasnmission flushed. i'm hoping it's nothing too expensive that's wrong. what happens is as it goes to shift, it goes 500-700 rpm above the normal shift points, and sometimes the clutch disengauges or something and it take a couple taps of the throttle to get it into gear. the weird thing is, once it's in gear, it functions fine with no grinding or anyting at all. help! what could my issue be?

thanks a lot!

-Alex

westtnfx4

Sounds like the bands in your tranny are slipping....a filter/fluid change could not hurt at this point and is worth a shot. But I'd be searching for a good used one out of a salvage yard to replace it. You will save some money that way.

schmanman

from what I can tell it's only the shift from 2nd to 3rd as well.

sbronemann

I had the same issue in my old 01 ranger. I went to the local junkyard and they found me a tranny with only 20k on it and installed it for right around $800. I'm sure being an F150 might be a bit more, but I'd say you could go that route for about $1000 Which seems like a lot, but to have it rebuilt or a new one will cost upwards of $2000

schmanman

haha well thats a bummer. I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. the funny thing is that we had the transmission replaced under warranty when the truck had 30,000 miles or so on it.

sbronemann

That's pretty messed up! Do you do a lot of towing with it?

98blue54

poor 4r70w check out www.car-part.com pretty easy to find anything oem for the most part... basically like an online junkyard

schmanman

the weird thing about it is that I rarely tow or haul, and when I do, it's only a dirtbike in the bed or a trailer with two sea-doos on it.

avalosp

dang that sucks I bought my truck and in 2 weeks the tranny went out (around 173k) a shop quoted me at 1500 for a rubild so I bout one for 700 and got it put it for 300 and it's good now

schmanman

yeah I'm taking it up to the shop tomorrow and they are gonna put in a new one