Hello all-
I was pulling my 19' boat yesterday with my 05 XLT 4x4, and had a total tranny failure. Lost pressure, forward momentum, and it sounded like it had a bag of marbles in it. In the shop now for a rebuild. If I had any money right now I would dump this piece of s---. Anybody else had their tranny go bad?

 

mines goin..

it slips at WOT if you downshift into a gear. sencond gear also with be rough sometimes at very light throttle shifting from first.

and for the second time yesterday i went to start the truck at a store and its as if my torque converter is locking and not letting it crank. i finally got it started by giving it some throttle. that scares me.

 

My transmission went out last friday and I took it the shop on saturday. They rebuilt it and I picked it up on wensday and took it back thursday because it was grinding. Come to find out they didn't tightin down all the bolts. So that fixed the grinding. Today on my way home it locked up in the middle of an intersection. I floored it and it broke loose long enough for me 2 get it out of the road. I called and cussed out the manager at the shop that rebuilt it and gave them hell and made them pay for a towing service. I followed the guy towing it to the shop and we had to drag it off the rollback. It wouldn't even roll in nuetral. I'm pissed!

 

damn man, sorry to hear that. im afraid of that happening to me.

 

What's the mileage on your trucks? I have 95,000 on my 04' and thinking about doing a tranny flush and filter change. I am just curious as to your maintenance regimen.

 

My truck has 155000 miles on it. I'm not sure if the tranny had ever been serviced before because I bought with 138000 miles on it. I dout it has because the air filter was probably the original. Along with the brake pads and fuel filter. The original owner was the owner of the local ford dealership.

 

wonder why he didnt have it serviced then..

and mine has 81.5k miles on her.

 

I only have 77k on my truck, it has had all of the recommended services. It is now at a transmission specialist, not the Ford dealer. The specialist says this was a new tranny design for this series of truck, and is lightly built, at best. He says he has seen them snap a shaft from going into reverse at a slightly elevated rpm. Mine broke down pulling a not-very heavy boat on a flat surface. It is a POS. At least now with the tranny coming out, we can get a look at the flywheel. We think it is warped, due to the starter problems I have had. (The starter misses and makes the familiar screeching sound occasionally, ) We have replaced the starter 3 times, to no avail. Removing the starter and rotating the engine revealed no broken teeth on the flywheel. I am going to get a new flywheel this morning to bring to the tranny guy. If my construction business was not so slow right now, you would find me at the Chevy dealer this weekend. 0% for 60 months, and a 100k mile powertrain warranty. That is for me!

 

07 XLT 5.4, 31xxx miles, CAI, SIDO magnaflo, edge tuner on tow program with -1 on standard shifting. I bought the beast around first of the year, a proud owner of an F150!
While touring the Gettysburg battle field, I hit the brakes going into a steep downhill and there was no play in the brake pedal. Instant brakes. After deciding there was something wrong and finding a spot to stop the brakes were smoking. Called a tow and sent her to a mechanic. He said the little rod between the booster and master cylinder had come loose. $212 for used booster and labor. When he started to back out of his shop there was no reverse! Also no OD.
Found a Ford dealer, drove there in 3rd gear, got a trans falt as I pulled into the dealers. Now setting here in Gettysburg waiting for a transmission, and waiting.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Domino problems on my beautiful beast? Is the Edge programing too much for the tranny? Or the dragging breaks broke the tranny? Or it was just a good time to break?
Sorry, stranded and venting a little.

 

Builderman I noticed that your profile says that your truck is a 2005, I don't know where your trans specialist is getting his info but your trans is not a new design it is the same basic trans that Ford has been building since 1992, Ford calls it a 4R70W and it is actually a good design, a lot simpler than GM's 4L60E (read less parts to fail). We work on all makes in our shop and I can tell you you will do no better with a GM truck, we build more 4L60E's than we do 4R70W's. And I am not trying to put down GM trucks because I drive a Ford I am making an observation based on experience, I spent 8 years working at a Chevrolet dealer before I went to work at an independant shop I know that contrary to what Howie might try to lead us to believe Chevrolet is not all that plus a piece of cake too.