Our Competitors Aren't Being Competetive!
Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers!
As Ironic As It Can Get!
This one is definitely for the books and I mean the big history books if you ask me!
Why do I say this? Well it's not because of how badly this thing is buggered up and that after a rebuild, how much of a rebuild I do not know!
So let me give some back story! Or rather the story I heard. So my uncle works at the local Ford dealer and when they brought this transmission in from the Ford dealer we always have question as to what happened, it makes the repair slightly easier to know what to look for!
What we heard is that this pickup came from one of our dear competitors (Or rather that guy thinks so) They rebuilt the transmission and once it wasn't right they sent it to the Ford dealer to see what was wrong with it and Ford sent it to us!
This Is My Question
Once they started the pickup and heard that it was clearly getting some sort of oil starvation (that's what I noticed when I started the vehicle, it was getting an oil starvation)
Now why didn't they decide to open the sump and check if something was wrong or even remove the transmission and start over? Since they are after all a transmission repair shop?
Here's The Thing!
This build could have been saved, they had so much time to save this build since these transmissions can take quite a beating. It wont just break the first start and get go!
Absolutely no way, what happened here was it got some oil starvation and then they probably thought driving it would sort out the problem! Or they revved it up in hopes of getting some oil pressure!
Always and I mean always a bad idea, nursing it would have helped so much!
Now... Now we have steel circulating through the entire transmission and that only messes up the hard steel parts which are immensely expensive to replace.
This can't be rebuilt at all, it's better to grab a different broken one from the shelf and start from scratch!
As for this one it goes to the scrap bin and here is why!
The First Thing I Noticed!
Besides the steel clogging up on the magnet on the oil sump pan!
I noticed that one of the rubber oil feed pipes was sticking to the side of the transmission valve body. This is supposed to be fixed between the transmission drums and the valve body!
It's hard to see but it is also sheered in half, I can't even begin to think how this could have possibly happened, they fit in real tight so no way it could have fallen out. This must have been a problem caused on purpose!
But what do I know.
That little pipe that is sheared off should be fitted in that oil hole and once the valve body is fitted on there is absolutely no way for that pipe to get out. No way on this earth.
Which leads me to think that this was a fault caused on purpose, either that or the guy who removed the valve body wasn't in the mood to remove the valve body again after fitting it, to fit the pipe back in place and then they simply just put it somewhere in the box loosely.
This is really breaking my brain on so many levels!
The Result Of That.
Some hard and expensive parts lost, this is the input shaft which runs on the stator shaft which pretty much makes the oil pressure inside the transmission. It is also coupled with the clutch drum that gives you the 5th gear.
Whelp it's completely lost, there is no way to save it, you can not rebush it or anything. Once it gets a little score mark it's done for. If it was only the oil seals there might have been a chance for saving it!
Once the input shaft and stator shaft gets worn out it bugs up the converter and also the oil pump gears. Which just adds to the bill even more! Those are some extremely expensive parts to buy and it's just not worth it for both us and the client!
Just do a different build now. Damn I can not believe people are so blind and naive or maybe it's a thing of lazyness to remove everything and check where a fault could have been made!
Sheesh!
All we can do now is wait on Ford to come assess the build!
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It's really interesting to see how someone takes apart engines like this.
It's quite a fun thing to do. Especially when building things back up and everything runs smoothly!