Trans. Leaking bad
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Trans. Leaking bad
I have a 2002 F250 4x4 7.3L and the other day after pulling a 8000lb trailer my wife notice transmisson fluid pouring out from underneath the truck so i got out and looked and sure enough there was a small stream of trans fluid coming out of a small hole where the trans and engine join. I figure the front seal on the trans broke. Well i called around to get some prices it would be 650.00 to replace the seal and install a new torque converter,labor included. And 1600.00 to rebuild my transmission that would include labor. About the same price every wheres i called. I figured I would change transmissions sense it has 160,000 miles on it. What do ya'll think.
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I have heard great things about Brian's Truck Shop transmissions. They are not cheap though. I would say with 160000miles on the stock one behind the 7.3 you did pretty well, a lot of people haven't made it that far.
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Not trying to spend your money for you, but ...
Who knows why that front seal really went? Did the tranny start slipping and overheat? Or did the seal just start leaking like crazy one day?
To me, this sounds like a heat-related thing.
And the best thing to do would be: Rebuild the darn thing.
Let others comment on this because there are plenty of places that build these transmissions up to the point where they are bullet-proof.
But I'll say this, that seal would normally weep for a long time before tranny fluid just starts running all over the place. If it suddenly did this all at once, that's not just "replace the seal and install new/rebuilt torque converter" - because once you get all that work done to replace that seal, and the tranny is still toast, that $650 is wasted money.
Who knows why that front seal really went? Did the tranny start slipping and overheat? Or did the seal just start leaking like crazy one day?
To me, this sounds like a heat-related thing.
And the best thing to do would be: Rebuild the darn thing.
Let others comment on this because there are plenty of places that build these transmissions up to the point where they are bullet-proof.
But I'll say this, that seal would normally weep for a long time before tranny fluid just starts running all over the place. If it suddenly did this all at once, that's not just "replace the seal and install new/rebuilt torque converter" - because once you get all that work done to replace that seal, and the tranny is still toast, that $650 is wasted money.
