About 1100 miles after having the transmission flushed, it was intermittently slipping in O/D, now it doesn't even go into Overdrive with the OD light flashing. Truck has 182,000 miles on it, I guess I'm probably calling BTS right? I'm in Canada so I imagine core shipping will be fun.

 

I talked to my tranny guy today about mine having a few issues but i think my probs will be fixed without calling BTS. Another option for you would be to have someone good go through your stocker and use an aftermarket T/C, and get a better pump and valvebody. The symptoms your having he said are from a worn out pump and T/C, You could do these things and spend a WHOLE lot less money than on a BTS.

 

I drove it a little more, the TC locks up, it just doesn't go into O/D . After LOTS of reading, I'm going to try a $16 VSS tonite. Failing that, if I do have to pull the tranny, it is getting re-done. Because I'm in Canada, shipping alone on the BTS is $684. Ford reman or a local shop with a detailed list of brand name gears and clutches are the next bets. But it barks the tires in all other gears, fluid smells fine, and it does lockup, so we'll see what happens when I get home, but if we have to tear into the trans, we are not that far from a proper rebuild anyway. I'm going to get some pro opinions as well if the VSS doesn't fix it. My buddy is going to hook it up to a code scanner for me tonite, I could be worked up over nothing. Seeing as the truck has towed about 10 times in it's entire life, and the trailers were well under 8k, and fluid changes were regular, I don't know why it would be worn out at this point.

 

16$VSS Whats that?

 

The vehicle speed sensor. A lot of posts on this forum talk about the blinking OD light and not shifting right because if it. It's a quick cheap swap, I figure I'll try that first.

 

Vehicle Speed Sensor

The speedo is driven off the ABS system which has the VSS as one of its inputs but the VSS is also used as a tranny input and an intermittent or bad one will cause the OD light to blink and the tranny not to use OD (Safe Mode) even though the speedo is working correctly since the ABS system will drive it off of the front wheel sensors.

misterFisher have you considered having brian ship a rebuild kit and assembling it locally instead of shipping the whole core.

 

Might be a good plan. If it comes to that, I'll talk to those guys and see, his trannies do have the best rep about them, but I wonder how important it is to have them assemble it and check it.

 

Well, update. Got my old 1705 tuner out, pulled the codes. God a 0478,470, and 783. Cleared the codes and truck shifted normally (The 783 code was failing to shift 4-5). Got home, pulled my VSS, the thing was covered in crap. Swapped it out because I had it, and the truck pulls hard through all gears.

 

It's always going to fail to shift 4-5. It's a four speed trans, there is no fifth gear.

 

I think it was a miss type 783 is actually the 3-4 shift

 

Ooops! Well, I was happy enough to stave off the arrival of Uncle Big Bill for a while, so I wasn't too accurate on quoting from the book. Now, I just have to deal with the ebps code and I'm set.

 

Get the BTS, last trans you'll buy. Anything less is less for a reason. The ones that really surprise me are the ones who spend more and get less than a BTS, just crazy.

 

I'd love to, but up where I am, here is how it breaks down:

BTS Trans: $3800
Shipment to me: $620
Shipment of core: $620
Broker Fees: $120
Local Install $700

Total: $5860 .

I just can't justify that for my truck running nothing more then a tuner. If I was south of the 49th, I would just drive to him and have him put it in, then the price spread is not nearly as bad.

 

I'm only a couple of hours from the 49th, how far are you away? I'm still thinking it's worth the drive.

 

[QUOTE=misterfisher]I'd love to, but up where I am, here is how it breaks down:

BTS Trans: $3800
Shipment to me: $620
Shipment of core: $620
Broker Fees: $120
Local Install $700

Total: $5860 .


isn't there also a $1k torque to add