I got a big surprise today when my AOD started slipping bad. The problem occurred totally out of the blue with no warning.
On my way to work today my transmission started slipping between overdrive and 3rd gear and mildly slipping between 1st and 2nd. Being that I just got the car three weeks ago I was totally pissed when this stated happening. I popped the hood and inspected everything and found nothing wrong. Therefore I ended up taking the SC to my mechanic who suggested a fluid change. So I agreed and everyone went on their merry way. When the job was completed the AOD still slipped. I got her home and went in the house and had a beer to think about things. Dam was this going to cost me a new or rebuilt AOD?
So I went back out to the garage and opened the hood. I farted around with hoses and fluids for about 5 minutes and accidentally bumped into the accelerator linkage by the intake where the accelerator cable and step down cable attach. It's a good thing I bumped it because when I bumped it the step down cable moved below the linkage and was totally unattached. I hadn't noticed it before but the grommet that attaches the step down cable had cracked and fell out. I didn’t notice it because the attachment point was up snug against the bracket when the engine was at idle. I didn’t have a replacement grommet so I used a cable tie to temporally attach it back and voila, the tranny shifts normally now.
So lessons learned here.
1. Plastic parts are crap. Ford sold me a replacement Nylon grommet that they said is used now because of the exact problem.
2. Do a more through inspection of all tranny attachment points before taking it to the garage.
3. The guys at the local Garage are as clueless as I am.
Total cost of a job that should have cost me $1.84 cost me $103.49.
Incase anybody needs to know the part number is FMC E0AZ7F330A
On my way to work today my transmission started slipping between overdrive and 3rd gear and mildly slipping between 1st and 2nd. Being that I just got the car three weeks ago I was totally pissed when this stated happening. I popped the hood and inspected everything and found nothing wrong. Therefore I ended up taking the SC to my mechanic who suggested a fluid change. So I agreed and everyone went on their merry way. When the job was completed the AOD still slipped. I got her home and went in the house and had a beer to think about things. Dam was this going to cost me a new or rebuilt AOD?
So I went back out to the garage and opened the hood. I farted around with hoses and fluids for about 5 minutes and accidentally bumped into the accelerator linkage by the intake where the accelerator cable and step down cable attach. It's a good thing I bumped it because when I bumped it the step down cable moved below the linkage and was totally unattached. I hadn't noticed it before but the grommet that attaches the step down cable had cracked and fell out. I didn’t notice it because the attachment point was up snug against the bracket when the engine was at idle. I didn’t have a replacement grommet so I used a cable tie to temporally attach it back and voila, the tranny shifts normally now.
So lessons learned here.
1. Plastic parts are crap. Ford sold me a replacement Nylon grommet that they said is used now because of the exact problem.
2. Do a more through inspection of all tranny attachment points before taking it to the garage.
3. The guys at the local Garage are as clueless as I am.
Total cost of a job that should have cost me $1.84 cost me $103.49.
Incase anybody needs to know the part number is FMC E0AZ7F330A