Hi,
Yesterday I just added a 17 - F-150 XLT with the 5.0 and 6 speed trans to my stable as my dd. Decided to check fluids this afternoon and could not find the trans dipstick. After some searching it sounds like there is none. Is it true there is no longer a trans dipstick.

Thanks Rich,

 

Under the truck. Right side of the transmission. It has a cover. I used a crescent wrench to take it off. Dip stick is under the cover. Exhaust pipe might be hot. Take care. Google it.

 

Unless you have a leak, no need to check..... So is the thinking. There was another thread talking about this recently. Seems the thinking also includes trying to eliminate folks putting the wrong ATF down the hole, over filling, or putting motor oil in there.

As long as I'm under warranty I'll just check the driveway for spots and pay attention to it banging through the gears. Any changes and I'll let the dealer figure it out.

Engine oil on the other hand....I ought to go check that right now.

 

Thanks guys, if I ever get the itch to look, i'll know where to start.

Rich

 

Or maybe a ford dealer from putting in the wrong transmission fluid in. Local ford dealer did that to my sisters fusion a couple of years ago and killed the transmission in it. They made it right and admitted the mistake. They replaced the transmission and gave her a warranty at no charge. You guys would probably **** your pants when you find out a lot of times they don't clean the trans flush machines and different fluids get mixed all the time and put into the transmission. Mistakes happen but not everyone is man enough to admit it and own up to it.

 

Here is how to check. I bought a heat glove off amazon as this spot is right next to the cat and the trans needs to be full hot with truck idling and in part to check. Use caution.

 

As word of warning, I had the dealer service my trans a 36k miles as I had been towing. They overfilled it by 3 quarts......you see right 3 quarts and said it was Ok as the pan is shallow. I told the service manager BS and I had to suck it out. It was a bitch to do. Also to do it correct the trans must be at operation temp to get all the permissives open for the cooling so their machine can work right. I'll bet mine wasn't there either so no more trans services for them.

 

Nice video ,
I can pull a dipstick and check it with the best of them, but laying under my truck in the driveway to get to trans cap and dipstick is just not gonna happen.
I would like to see the engineers do that. That's crazy.

 

When you add the running truck at operating temperatures, I bail.

 

Yes its true there is no dipstick what ever reason that Ford gives for this in my opinion is BS. Just to let you know I owed a 2011 F150 that didn't have a trans dipstick either. I'm not sure how long Ford has been doing this. One of the biggest reasons that I don't like it is after a trans service I cant easily check to see if the the fluid level is correct.

 

My understanding is that Ford sees a lot less warranty claims for transmission problems, which many times were caused by ignorant people not knowing how to read the dipstick and/or putting the wrong fluid in.