transmission please help
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transmission please help
I have a 96 f150 5.0 4wd short bed with a automatic e40d transmission. My transmission went out on me and I'm have a hard time finding one for a 96. Would I be able to pull a tranny form a 90-96 bronco and put it in?
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Before you go spend hard earned money and time on replacing the trans have you positively determined that the trans is actually the problem? Sensor issues are the #1 cause of issues with this thing so you need to exercise due diligence before spending a dollar on a rebuild or you could be completely wasting your time and money and still have the same problem.
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The Speedo cluster going south can have a huge effect on how the transmission acts too. Had this happen to a 95 van I had with an E4OD. Replaced the cluster and it was fine afterwards. Too many tire size changes will kill the cluster, it's only programmed to compensate for 5 tire size changes total, anything more will screw it up and the transmission goes haywire as a result.
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I was able to drive it for a little while but I had to start out in low and work my way up to drive. If I tried to take off in drive all it would do is rev and then kick real hard. Now I can't even do that all I have is reverse.
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That's what mine did when the speedo cluster went out.
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Yeah there's probably nothing wrong with your trans, pull the codes before you do anything else.
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Do a search on ebay, you'll pay a LOT less than I did at the dealer 10 years ago. They hit me up for around $550 if I recall, I looked at the clusters on ebay recently and they were nowhere near that expensive. I may just buy one to keep as a backup for mine. The newer vans went back to the mechanical speedo's probably just for that reason. I looked at quite a few 98-2000's and they all had the older mech speedo cluster
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