7 years? Really???

 

Interesting... just got asked to do an interview as a Youtube Creator.

 

When I did the wheel bearing on the Wife's Escape a couple weeks ago, things got a little wonky. While pressing out the hub from the bearing, the entire bearing felt the need to come out, and so naturally, the snap ring also came with it.





I put it back together, and I can't help but think the snap ring issue is why it made noise from the get go. I don't want to pull it apart to **** around with it for several hours, so I just ordered a Moog replacement knuckle/bearing/hub assembly. This will, at the very least, allow me to build a jig to perform these in. Although the pieces of wood have worked out thus far, I still keep wishing I'd taken some time to build some sort of support for this job. This IS the weakest link on the first and second gen Escapes.

 

Paul visits Skeeter in this episode... oh, and Diesel Dave.

 

First time? I get those as well. Only have 1 video, and it's set to private...but they find it.

 

Can't say nothing bad about Transgo personally. This is a "Tugger kit"...for a gen 10 trans though. Bullet proofed it alright, -





Clutch materiel blasted away, aluminum pistons replaced with steel like new again... -

 

Around the outside there ? Yea that's new to me as well .. and might I add, it's about time! lol

 

I dont know if I would be as excited as she is to tackle that project. lol
That honestly looks like you replaced the whole thing except for the case.

 

LOL.

Didn't replace anything other than pistons and springs. The Kit was 99 bucks back then. Ordered the pistons separate as they didn't come with the kit. Valve body wasn't bad. The accumulator body on the other hand was dirty as hell dirty as hell. Clutch material was ground in..fortunately still within tolerance after cleaning. Old pistons were bad, in a way the metal was bad from the start, didn't hold up. Took some elbow grease as parts cleaner..tank would get it all.

Did it online and one member sent me his stuff after giving up on his. Didn't need it, my originals were still okay. Other than that, the fluid was a small fortune....200,000 more miles out it, still has never slipped.. that I can tell anyway since.

I didn't use I/2 of that kit after locating the problem.

 

Transgo makes a decent kit. The Sonnax kits are kind of like the "Problem Solver" series of Moog. We still use Transgo for the Dodge's. For the older Fords, Sonnax fixes a lot of common issues.

I did call and talk to the Transgo help line, and they were very helpful. I was just wondering what the manual valve changes provided in their Dodge kit. It charges the converter at all RPM's... which is nuts to me that Dodge didn't do that from the factory. I kinda giggled when I was talking to him, and he says "what can you say.... it's a Dodge". LOL

EDIT: Also, the Sonnax instructions are better, and the kits I've used thus far came with the proper drill bits in the box. I really like that.