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Need transmission
I have a F-150 XLT 5.4L year 2000. AAmaco says that my tranny is neutrlizing meaning that it wants to lock! I don't want to buy a used tranny. I prefer a rebuilt, my own hopefully. What do you guys suggest? AAmaco wants $900 to pull it down and take it apart then they will tell me what parts I need with no further labor charge. But how much will the parts be? They can not say until they see what needs to be changed. What should I do? What is a good price? Should I just go for someone elses rebuilt? Please help and "NO" I can not afford a new truck! I live in NYC.
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When I put my foot on the accelerator the truck hesitates a bit not every time but 90% of the time. This has been going on for quite sometime. I call it "slipping" but they said after a drive test that it was trying to neutralize. So now I am exploring the world of transmissions. I know they have "used" "rebuilts" and "new" and they probably do not have new ones for my year. I am at a lost! My money is very limited. I have about $2,000 so far and I need my truck for work.
When I put my foot on the accelerator the truck hesitates a bit not every time but 90% of the time. This has been going on for quite sometime. I call it "slipping" but they said after a drive test that it was trying to neutralize. So now I am exploring the world of transmissions. I know they have "used" "rebuilts" and "new" and they probably do not have new ones for my year. I am at a lost! My money is very limited. I have about $2,000 so far and I need my truck for work.
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No. I use to have trouble in the cold weather. The truck would sound like it wanted to cut off, stall out. So what I did was heat it up and really rev the engine. It would pop and pop then and now everything is fine! That seems to do the trick. I have over 210K miles on it. I did have the engine checked and they said I had a bad spark plug but I figure that is the least of my woes. The idle is really fine now.
A miss can cause hesitation when accelerating my 00 had a bad coil or 2 and when I took off it would kinda hesitate and slightly jump a little then come out of it then at random it'd do it again
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ok I'm going to have the plugs changed and get a new wire set. The mechanic up the street from me said he would do it for $80 which sounded fine to me. I will have him check the timing belt or whatever that is also. Thank you so much for your help. I will have this done in a day or two and get back to you here.