Emergency Opinions

[JExpedition07]

What’s the mileage on your Expedition J?


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158,800 I’m a stupid person and had shorted a COP when i cleaned my engine bay. The shop replaced the coil and spark plug and truck runs good again. Tranny is fine, still wanted a fluid flush anyway long story short no tranny replacement.

 

[08T1]

Lol. That's good to hear.

 

[Allen Miller]

158,800 I’m a stupid person and had shorted a COP when i cleaned my engine bay. The shop replaced the coil and spark plug and truck runs good again. Tranny is fine, still wanted a fluid flush anyway long story short no tranny replacement.

That de-escalated quickly! Glad it was just the COP and not the whole transmission!

 

[david_jr]

Be careful, those COPS are robbers!! (-:

 

[Trainmaster]

Just read this thread and at first thought, it was an engine problem. Transmissions rarely just die one day when starting the car. If they do, it's usually a repairable problem, like a magnet valve. A poor running engine makes shifting very unpredictable and erratic. If you continued driving you would have gotten a code that would have shown the engine miss.

Hope you replaced the coil with a Motorcraft one. The "lifetime guaranteed" ones on ebay that sell for $3 will give you one problem after another.

Let this be a lesson to those seeking advice on the Internet: Two pages of "advice givers" claiming and concurring that you need a new transmission.

Eddie, New York

 

[JExpedition07]

The only one who was convinced it was a transmission was me, nobody else gave me bad advice IMO. When i brought it to my shop and explained the symptoms their initial thought was a bad TC or valve or clogged up by shavings because they’ve seen it before. They said if it’s that which it sounded like we could do a Ford Reman. They had a busy day and we just talked it through in the office and agreed a transmission could be producing these symptoms and it may be the culprit, which it wasn’t. It’s hard to diagnose a vehicle by just listening to a jabbering customer like myself until you diagnose. they then ran it until it threw a code and found the misfire and replaced the plug and Coil and it’s running like new since.

 

[Adieu]

Actually for a shop to not immediately suspect a common failure point for what's probably America's bestselling large engine family.... that's kinda suspicious.

I get the feeling A LOT of people end up buying unnecessary or even nonexistent tranny and head gasket work with "complimentary" (undocumented) replacement of one spark plug or ignition coil

 

[Adieu]

Wrong thread