Hi Everyone

I have done several searches and found numerous posts about stalling problems w/several years/models of trucks, but have never found any real idea of what's causing it. Does anyone know if a reason was ever uncovered? Not that it would necessarily be an 'across the board' fix but at least somewhere to start?

I have a 2001 F250 V8 5.4L Lariat that I purchased 1yr ago. Has about 60,000 miles on it. In April I took it to a dealer (not who I bought it from) and they fixed a door latch, performed oil change and flushed/replaced the transmission fluid. Ok, I'm not a car person but I believe that's what they said they did. The day I picked it up, I drove about 15 miles before parking the truck. I decided to back it in and when I shifted to reverse, the RPM's dropped and it stalled. Instead of taking it back next day, I let it go. The truck is my secondary veh and is only driven occasionally. Over the next several months, the truck has stalled 3 more times when putting it into reverse and also stalled 2 times when I had to stop hard due to traffic/red light. If you shift slowly from drive to neutral, give the RPM's a chance to come back up and then shift into reverse it's fine and if you know you are going to have to stop and do it slowly it's fine.

Finally got the truck back in and they hooked up some computer and tried to recreate the problem and found nothing wrong. Called me told me they couldn't find anything and I asked they keep it and try driving it again. I am not going to use this truck to haul with if they can't fix it. Today he calls said they have now recreated the problem 2x's but don't know whats causing it but they THINK it might be transmission. But they can't tell anything w/out taking transmission apart...about $500. Then they can figure out IF IT IS the transmission and see if extended warranty will cover. If not of course I'm paying the bill and if it's NOT the transmission then I have to pay another $500 to put the truck back together w/no answers. If I have to pay the $1000, I have to pay it, but it just seems with so many posts about stalling trucks how can the dealer not have a clue?

So, I'm just trying to find out of anyone had any similar problems and had any success in finding out what the problem was....this dealer is clueless at this point and I'm looking at $1000 on nothing more than someone 'thinks' it might be transmission.

Thanks for any suggestions

Tami

 

the dealer may have caused the problem when the did the trans service if they did not put the filter back in correctly:

Stall when engaging transmission (automatic, usually manual low or reverse):
Torque Converter Clutch.
This may be caused by the TCC being engaged at idle. On trucks built before 9-20-95 the correction is a new transmission front pump and/or torque converter. On trucks built after the above date, it could be cause by a loose transmission filter. In this case, install a flat magnetic strip (from a Tempo ATX or Ranger A4LD transmission) in the trans pan below the filter pick up to retain the filter in place or use an updated filter from Ford that has bumps cast into the plastic to help it stay in place.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. Can I ask where that infomation you quoted came from? I asking Ford about it and was wondering if I could refer him to a manual or something to read that. He's saying it's possible that's what it is but they still won't know till they do the $500 tear down to look at it. thanks again

 

http://www.intellidog.com/dieselmann/home.html look under sytoms. you will have to cut and paste the link