Proper way to service your transmission

So speaking of transmissions I noticed a small leak on this plastic piece with a cap screw. It was loose so I tightend it. What's it's purpose? Drain hole?

please chime in, thank you

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ncmm - So speaking of transmissions I noticed a small leak on this plastic piece with a cap screw. It was loose so I tightend it. What's it's purpose? Drain hole?
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That's the port for the VSS (Vehicle Speed Sensor) that in 2003 was eliminated from transmission tail housing (speedometer now gets speed data from PCM).

Rather than cast a different tail housing, a plug was used to block-off the port.
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Hi,

Time for a fluid change at 26k miles.

Does anyone know if the "U-Hall Pan" is standard capacity or extra capacity?
If it is extra capacity, does it present an extra possibility for damage by a rock or the like?


Edit, After re-reading RF's post he says "...identical..." to factory pan so no problem.

Thanks,
Jay
 
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Got the "u-haul" pan from Tasca. New fluid and filter going in on Tuesday. Letting a local dealer, Scarsdale Ford do the fluid flush and swap in the new pan. Then I can add an easy partial fluid change to the yearly maintenance list.
 
Jay, you could have spent $3 and had a plug put in your original pan. 10mm bolts for the tranny pan, easy peezy, do it yourself! For the amount of money you are going to pay someone to install the pan and do a tranny fluid flush, you could buy an oil drain pan, 10mm socket, ratchet, 5 qts merconV, and filter and enjoy it with a 6 pack of beer, and a sense of accomplishment :beer:
 
whitey said:
Jay, you could have spent $3 and had a plug put in your original pan. 10mm bolts for the tranny pan, easy peezy, do it yourself! For the amount of money you are going to pay someone to install the pan and do a tranny fluid flush, you could buy an oil drain pan, 10mm socket, ratchet, 5 qts merconV, and filter and enjoy it with a 6 pack of beer, and a sense of accomplishment :beer:
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Have a photos of this drain plug ?
 
I have 54,000 miles on my 2004 Silver Birch. I have replaced the fluid and filter three times already. 15K and out has always been my motto.

The first time I had the trans fluid and filter done, I also replaced the pan with a drain plug, deep dish, extra capacity unit. I like fluids clean and cool.

Even though I use Mobile 1 in the Marauder, I change the oil every 3,000 miles. Again, clean and cool. Yes..... I have an oil cooler.
 
Yup could have bought a plug but thought this welded in unit would be nice. Also I can't easily do a complete flush of all the fluid. That is why I am having that work done. It sure would have been nice if ford had continued to include a drain plug on the torque converter.

I know I could have gone back and changed the pan and filter myself after having the initial flush done but for the extra $70 (less the cost of a filter & 5 quarts of fluid it would have cost me to do it myself) it saves me some time which right at the moment I am short of.

Either way I am glad to get nice fresh fluid in there and a plug for regular 5 quart freshening.

I have been hemming and hawing over adding a tranny cooler. I know they are great, particularly with fords. I added the factory coolers to my old 93, which was the predecessor to my marauder, and the 89 wagon. I wonder if I can add a cooler without cutting the existing lines as mods are a slippery slope which I have mostly avoided on the Marauder so far.
 
jaywish said:
Yup could have bought a plug but thought this welded in unit would be nice. Also I can't easily do a complete flush of all the fluid. That is why I am having that work done. It sure would have been nice if ford had continued to include a drain plug on the torque converter.

I know I could have gone back and changed the pan and filter myself after having the initial flush done but for the extra $70 (less the cost of a filter & 5 quarts of fluid it would have cost me to do it myself) it saves me some time which right at the moment I am short of.

Either way I am glad to get nice fresh fluid in there and a plug for regular 5 quart freshening.

I have been hemming and hawing over adding a tranny cooler. I know they are great, particularly with fords. I added the factory coolers to my old 93, which was the predecessor to my marauder, and the 89 wagon. I wonder if I can add a cooler without cutting the existing lines as mods are a slippery slope which I have mostly avoided on the Marauder so far.
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Yes you can add an aftermarket cooler without cutting any existing lines. Add the cooler in series with the OEM cooler. Plumb it so the fluid comes out of the OEM cooler, into the aftermarket cooler then back to the tranny.
 
RacerX said:
Transmission Power Flow Charts for 4R and others: http://www.toolcrib.ca/assets/pdfs/power_flow.pdf

Sonnax parts: http://www.sonnax.com/units/278-4R70W
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It's interesting that the Overdrive Band is applied when shifting manually into 2nd gear.

I've owned my Marauder since June of 2003 and have almost 100,000 miles on it and have been shifting manually from time to time when running Auto Cross events, burnouts and when standing on it from a stop light. So it must not hurt the transmission to shift it manually.
 
Transmission Slipping and Failing

I have a 2003 MM with 41,000 miles and an SCT Tuner I purchased from DR. I recently started having problems with the transmission going into neutral of failing to shift gears and then the car stalls out. :violin:

Transmission Flush was done at Jiffy Lube 2 years ago.

If I restart the engine, it works fine for a few days then does the same thing again.

I removed the DR tune today and it did the same thing again an hour later.

Any idea what the problem is?
 
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