ok you guys helped me befor so i am coming back for more. Help that is my 91 superduty e4od was shifting hard so i took it to the trans shop turns out it was a bad tps truck shifts great now but when i really put my foot down she slips until i take my foot of the gas and let the rpms come down a little then she grabs hard again that i could live with but now this morning i took it to the decal shop to put my company name on the truck she drove there fine but whene i came out i heard i little faint grinding sound but i ignord it thinking it was just due to the cold wheather you know -38c where i live but when i got to my buddies shop to show him the great decal job we noticed a pretty constant trans fluid drip coming from the inspection cover blow out tube so i shut the truck off and the drip stopped so i sarted her up again only for her to start dripping again but as the truck warmed up and got hotter the drip begain to slow and almost come to a compleat stop so my friend told me to put a seal conditioner in the trans but be for i could the grinding started to get louder and louder so in a panic i brought the truck in to the shop and pulled inspection cover and found some metal shavings i think they were from the ring gear because it was cracked in a few places and had pieces missing from it so my question is can i get away with just putting a new pump seal in a long with a ring gear or should i be looking for a deal on a new or rebuilt e4od since i have to take the trans out now matter what any way. money is tite right now so i am trying to think cost efective. thanks for the help by the way my truck is a 1991 f-450 superduty 7.3 diesel e4od thanks finnie81

 

sounds to me like you need a rebuild job, when you have peices inside the pan they are pretty well worn out , doing a peice meal job will only cost you more in the long run. thats not a small trans to be pulling in and out more then one time .only my 2cents. but you say ring gear thats a rear end peice, onless you mean a sun gear ring in the trans?

 

ah ya sorry i think so i have always called them that i mean the flex plate or the gear that the starter engades on to start the motor thats also bolts to the torq convert there was no metal in the trans pan it was in the in the inspection cover that you take off to get at what you are calling the sun gear the metal was from thi sun gear besause if was cracked pritty bad now dose this change any thing can i just get away with just changing the sun gear and the front pump seal or should i be putting a new trans in the sun gear i found a used one for $100 bucks cnd but am worried about hair line cracks you cant see and the pump seal is $7.00 cnd me and my buddie can do the job for $107.00 or put a new trans in for $1,500 witch i don't exacly have right now what do you think

 

ok now i under stand better you are talking about the starter ring gear on the flex plate . yes you can replace the flex plate with out changing any thing else, yes put in a new convertor seal while you have it out. a new pump only if it was making noise good luck. make sure to use new bolts i think they may be strech bolts at any rate they are cheap insurance

 

thanks for the help CAPTCHAS from finnie81