Tranny Fluid Change

[ssbroly]

Have any of you ever had a friend or relative that had their tranny fluid changed and their tranny blew up several months afterward? I had an Explorer do this to me. Buddy of mine has a 2000 dodge ram with the 360 in it, he's been thru 3 rear ends, and has NEVER changed the transmission fluid. At 140K his tranny is just now startin to slip. I'm just paranoid about changin mine. I put 3 transmissions in that explorer and I don't wanna do it to the expy.

 

[nvycrmn]

good god, 3 rear ends?!!!! maybe he should have bought a ford! hahah. most people that i have found drain the fluid they have in there now, change the filter in the tranny, then just filter the old fluid and put it back in.

 

[gazbold]

Just had mine flushed

Hi
I had mine flushed and refilled with full synthetic. The shop said it pays to have this re-done every 30,000 miles with ford trannys. They pump in fluid laced with a solvent, run it for a while to let it remove gum/varnish etc then drain and re-fill with new. They also change out the screens.

I had an issue with what seemed to be a leak but it turned out to be overheated fluid getting spat out of the breather on top of the casing.
I was towing at the time.

The flush was about a month ago now and I've had no noticable issues.

 

[aircargoo]

i need to change mine....never have and ive owned truck for 3 yrs.....im scared chit....lol itll cost $900 EASY TO FIX.......lol it will end up being a $1000 fluid change.

i heard its a chance......it could happen.

sometimes itll stutter into over drive....it goes away but happens at 1st on some trucks....after fluid change.

ive seen this on ford p-u...construction trucks.....and this guy services his stuff so.....he had 1 go bad after change.

...ive wanted to drain a little fluid at a time by disconnecting a line.

if i do do the fluid...i want a pan with drain ....thats like $200 or more...2oo cheap!

if u dont know when fluid was last changed....its a chance. cause IF you knew it was changed about 20-30,000 ago would help....

is fluid dark red....like mine....heard dark red isnt bad. wipe stick off on a clean rag.