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i have a 92 explorer with A4LD.I was at a station and put it in gear something clicked.my wife asked if i heard it. It was not very loud.Drove
about 7 miles and it was nite and a country road so about 45 mph.About the time it should have went into overdrive it just stalled and we drove the last 5 miles at 3,000 rpm doing 5 miles per hour.The pan looks pretty clean with no metal filings.It is on a bench now out of the truck.Turn the converter clockwise it rattles like it has glass in it.Turn it counterclockwise and it sometimes rotates sometimes locks up.It was also spewing fluid out the front seal when we tried to make the last steep hill in our driveway.I used to rebuild trannys but that was long ago.Torque converter???????
about 7 miles and it was nite and a country road so about 45 mph.About the time it should have went into overdrive it just stalled and we drove the last 5 miles at 3,000 rpm doing 5 miles per hour.The pan looks pretty clean with no metal filings.It is on a bench now out of the truck.Turn the converter clockwise it rattles like it has glass in it.Turn it counterclockwise and it sometimes rotates sometimes locks up.It was also spewing fluid out the front seal when we tried to make the last steep hill in our driveway.I used to rebuild trannys but that was long ago.Torque converter???????
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Thank you MARK.
Is it possible the click we heard was a spring in the converter breaking when i put it in drive?And it was under too much pressure when it tried to shift into over drive?I had been thinking it shuttered a little shifting from drive to overdrive.
Is it possible the click we heard was a spring in the converter breaking when i put it in drive?And it was under too much pressure when it tried to shift into over drive?I had been thinking it shuttered a little shifting from drive to overdrive.
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It probably wasn't a spring breaking. There are springs in a torque converter, but if they break it just gets clunky, it doesn't fail.
There is a one way clutch in the torque converter. That's likely what failed. It's cheaper to replace the converter than to try to fix that one.
Mark
There is a one way clutch in the torque converter. That's likely what failed. It's cheaper to replace the converter than to try to fix that one.
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I'm going to rebuild my 92 A4LD after I get back from my vacation in a couple of weeks (its been in storage for 6 months). I got the ATSG manual ($16) from bulkparts.com and it says that it should spin freely in both directions without a sound. What code leters ate on your converter? As I was asking before, it seems that there are only single clutch rebuilt converts available. Go to www.atdg.com, click on tech and view A4LD problems before putting on a new converter.
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date:10/11/92
Funny thing to me with supposedly 200,000 plus miles no seal wear mark on the converter.
date:10/11/92
Funny thing to me with supposedly 200,000 plus miles no seal wear mark on the converter.
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 08-Oct-02 AT 10:18 PM (EST)]Thank You, MARK.I replaced the converter and it seems fine.Now will the stronger converter be harder on the tranny since it only has 206,000 miles.So far i have never felt it slip.
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It depends on what you mean by a stronger converter. Is it just made out of heavier materials? Or is the torque ratio higher?
If it is just made to last longer it won't hurt the transmission, but if the torque ratio is higher it is now putting more torque into the transmission. That can't be good for long life.
If it is just made to last longer it won't hurt the transmission, but if the torque ratio is higher it is now putting more torque into the transmission. That can't be good for long life.
