watched a torque converter blow up
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watched a torque converter blow up
I work for a landscape company and we had to do a job out in the boonies somewhere. we had to climb a big curvy mountain road with an 95 f-250 super duty turbo diesel packed with stone and a triaxle bri-mar trailer packed full of stone.
The truck hit a spot on the climb where it slowed down dramatically and barely climbed the hill. any way like 4 miles later we get to the drive site and look under to see fluid gushing out of the torque converter.
We got it towed and drove him with another work truck to find that the very spot it started to slow going up the hill is where it had happened. 4 miles of tranny fluid
The truck hit a spot on the climb where it slowed down dramatically and barely climbed the hill. any way like 4 miles later we get to the drive site and look under to see fluid gushing out of the torque converter.
We got it towed and drove him with another work truck to find that the very spot it started to slow going up the hill is where it had happened. 4 miles of tranny fluid
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Originally Posted by pintopower8
I work for a landscape company and we had to do a job out in the boonies somewhere. we had to climb a big curvy mountain road with an 95 f-250 super duty turbo diesel packed with stone and a triaxle bri-mar trailer packed full of stone.
The truck hit a spot on the climb where it slowed down dramatically and barely climbed the hill. any way like 4 miles later we get to the drive site and look under to see fluid gushing out of the torque converter.
We got it towed and drove him with another work truck to find that the very spot it started to slow going up the hill is where it had happened. 4 miles of tranny fluid
The truck hit a spot on the climb where it slowed down dramatically and barely climbed the hill. any way like 4 miles later we get to the drive site and look under to see fluid gushing out of the torque converter.
We got it towed and drove him with another work truck to find that the very spot it started to slow going up the hill is where it had happened. 4 miles of tranny fluid
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Originally Posted by The SnoMan
Tranny likely overheated on climb and started to boil over thru vent then torque converter hub seal failed. You cooked it, it did not blow up. I will also bet that you did not gear down and keep RPMs high are start of climb either. (a great way to fry a tranny with a diesel)
BINGO!!!!!!!! i have never seen a TC blow but the seals sure do when it boils.
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yeah the truck was in a lower gear, it just couldn't take the work. And there was a big gaping hole out the bottom of the converter. That thing was toasted. To get up the hill of the driveway we worked at it wouldn't go up that until we put it in 4-low
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Originally Posted by ford390gashog
well then it did blow. the hub must have come apart inside
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Originally Posted by pintopower8
thats what i wondered, but it kept going.
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