Tranny Grinding!
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Tranny Grinding!
Replaced my clutch in my 93 F350 over the Christmas-New Years week, and my fairly recently rebuilt ZF made grinding noises at lower RPMs, when the clutch was engaged.
This of course annoyed me because everything between the driveshaft and the flywheel is new, or rebuilt, so such noise shouldn't occur. Since the 351W and ZF is leaving in the late spring, I decided "who cares" and ignored it.
But today I decided to look at it, just because I had a little free time and it was alarming warm for winter in NJ.
What do you think I found?
Yes, that's right, the bottom transmission drain plug was misisng. Not loose, not leaking, missing.
Interesting, because when I swapped the clutch my nose was right there, and I didn't drain the fluid to swap the clutch. So, that means it's been missing tranny fluid from when I had it changed at the "10 minute oil change place" several months prior.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Sorry, I needed to vent. Stupidity ticks me off to no end.
This of course annoyed me because everything between the driveshaft and the flywheel is new, or rebuilt, so such noise shouldn't occur. Since the 351W and ZF is leaving in the late spring, I decided "who cares" and ignored it.
But today I decided to look at it, just because I had a little free time and it was alarming warm for winter in NJ.
What do you think I found?
Yes, that's right, the bottom transmission drain plug was misisng. Not loose, not leaking, missing.
Interesting, because when I swapped the clutch my nose was right there, and I didn't drain the fluid to swap the clutch. So, that means it's been missing tranny fluid from when I had it changed at the "10 minute oil change place" several months prior.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Sorry, I needed to vent. Stupidity ticks me off to no end.
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I'd take it back and tell them they owe you a tranny! My buddy had his oil changed at Wal Mart, where some high school drop out stripped out the pan plug, and didn't fix it. My friends Honda locked up on his way home... had 0 oil in it when she died.
Who payed for that one? You guessed it..... Wally world!
On a side note... thats why I never trust ANYONE to work on my vehicles, but myself. That is also the reason why I have yet to have my E4OD tranny rebuilt. I don't trust anyone to do it but myself, which is a problem, because I DONT KNOW HOW! Throw me a C6 and I'll have it nailed in no time. I think I'll have to give in and let someone else rebuild it... *tear*...
If you need to vent more go ahead Fredric!
Who payed for that one? You guessed it..... Wally world!
On a side note... thats why I never trust ANYONE to work on my vehicles, but myself. That is also the reason why I have yet to have my E4OD tranny rebuilt. I don't trust anyone to do it but myself, which is a problem, because I DONT KNOW HOW! Throw me a C6 and I'll have it nailed in no time. I think I'll have to give in and let someone else rebuild it... *tear*...
If you need to vent more go ahead Fredric!
Last edited by handyman43358; Jan 30, 2006 at 09:09 PM.
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Yeah, well, it was several months ago so it would be a more difficult fight than I think it's worth. Had the tranny died, I'd probably have pursued it with the owner, then legally when he tells me where to stick the truck 
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But added the fluid, all is well, so knock on wood for now. Had I not rebuilt it over the summer, I'm sure it would have been dead from this.
I do the quick-change oil thing because I ran out of storage for used fluids. Gas stations in NJ are required to accept car fluids for recycling, but they always do a pouty-whiney-dance when you show up. So I just give them the coolant to minimize my suffering of aforementioned pouty-whiney-dance, and the transfluid becomes cutting fluid after I strain it, and the oil gets burned in the waste oil heater. Which BTW is more work than it's worth.
.But added the fluid, all is well, so knock on wood for now. Had I not rebuilt it over the summer, I'm sure it would have been dead from this.
I do the quick-change oil thing because I ran out of storage for used fluids. Gas stations in NJ are required to accept car fluids for recycling, but they always do a pouty-whiney-dance when you show up. So I just give them the coolant to minimize my suffering of aforementioned pouty-whiney-dance, and the transfluid becomes cutting fluid after I strain it, and the oil gets burned in the waste oil heater. Which BTW is more work than it's worth.
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Yeah, mine's homemade and the burner part isn't working correctly. I light it by tossing a tuft of lit planer shavings in the firebox, then flipping on the switch. Sometimes it catches, some times it doesnt.
It's been on the "to fix" list since 2002.
It's been on the "to fix" list since 2002.
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it would not hurt to let them know about the problem just to see what they say...i would have to say something
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