Hey, my tranny has seen its better days my neighbor bought the truck new in '97 for his cattle and fencing business it was used to tow a 30ft lower boy goose neck trailer daily I bought it with approximatly 265k miles on it and now it has 279k miles on it the synchronizers are going and I'm grinding gears two diesel shop quoted me at $2500 to rebuild it I payed that for the truck with a plow so I don't what to put that in just the tranny. I found this rebuild kit on autozone.com Manual Transmission Rebuild Kit | 1997 Ford F350 1 ton P/U 4WD 8 Cylinders F 7.3L Turbo Diesel | AutoZone.com Has anyone else used it, is it all quality parts and is the company a good one I never heard of them? Does anyone else have a rebuild kit and is it easy to rebuild one?

 

there are definitely some guys on here that are rebuild experts on these tranny's. some good how-to threads with pictures as well.

hopefully one of them comes along and gives you some advice. if not in a few days, i'll try to dig up some of my saved threads for you.

 

Thanks I used the search function but useless stuff comes up and I can't find exact answer I'm looking for it might be there somewhere but theres to much to look through

 

Here is one with a few tips, but the pics are from another thread. I can't find that one yet.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...uild-tips.html

 

"Has anyone rebuilt their own ZF?"
-Yes. ;)

But I have a complete '91 Ford Truck Shop Manual set, that's what I used
plus the information a guy in town told me over the phone ...which I've
posted here on FTE. :) I hardly ever start new threads and true in this
case too, the information is in someone else's ZF rebuild thread.

There's a mistake in the ZF42-Manual and it got copied into Ford's books
and has-never-been corrected anywhere I've ever seen. :/

Step 13 of the assembly procedure has the wrong picture. It sent me to
running around like a chicken with my head cut off for about a half hour.
LOL :)

{edit: Cool URL there, ReBilld ! :}
{looks like the ZF47 Manual doesn't have the same mistake as the ZF42 xD}

LOL :)

You sure you're up to this? :/

{edit: *ZF* is all I used to find this thread, maybe _*ZF* rebuild_?}

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Yep, have done it. ZF5 Rebuild

Its posted in that thread, but I'll reiterate.

ZF Rebuild Manual

ZF Website (scroll to bottom)

 

This is where I got all my parts to rebuild mine. Cost around 500 for parts.
Rebuilt Manual Transmission Transfer Cases and Parts | Midwest Transmission Center no hassle warranty

 

sounds like time to swap a good auto into it lol

sorry,I had to....

 

............... LOL!

 

I've got a reasonably low mile, "gently" used E4OD just sitting here...lol

 

Yea...i know...i still need it!

 

Got my boat paddle out....stirring the pot lol

 

The problem is finding a "good" auto without spending $4k+. Lmao

 

I'm gonna..uunder 2k....4k trans might as well be a million to me right now.

 

...stirring in the other direction: is there such thing as a 'good auto trans?'

also - that Midwest trans part site is awesome. I had been looking for something like that while back, but gave up. ...somewhere that actually lists prices for all the internal parts.

I have a complete ZF5-42 4x4 that I bought in parts for $50. the rear tail-housing was broken completely off and the guy just handed me a 5 gallon bucket full of parts. I just needed the shifter, and boots, but I couldn't turn down all the spare parts. its nice to know that I can get a replacement tailhousing from this place for ~$200 and put it all back together if I ever need/want/find-time-to.