My saga with very high mileage (293K) Ford E-150 van continues.
I had the used engine (100K) installed and that was that.
I know tranny was leaking fluid and had to top off every 200 miles or so.
Finally I took it to a local tranny shop.
They found that oil cooler lines were leaking.
When they dropped the pan to service the tranny, they found metal fragments.
There is this circular magnet (about an inch in diameter) in the pan and there were thin metal pieces (around half inch long, thin like needles) attached to it.
Obviously they recommended full tranny rebuild which would cost $2500.
And me being cheap, just told them to flush the tranny and done with it (at least for now because tranny works fine.)
Should I let them rebuild the tranny now? Or can wait until some symptoms show?
Can I take 200 mile round-trip to/from the desert (want to avoid total break down obviously. I had to pay $800 for towing home the last time.)
Again it's ultra high mileage but even so there shouldn't be no big (half an inch long) pieces there?
Sorry I didn't take any photos.
I had the used engine (100K) installed and that was that.
I know tranny was leaking fluid and had to top off every 200 miles or so.
Finally I took it to a local tranny shop.
They found that oil cooler lines were leaking.
When they dropped the pan to service the tranny, they found metal fragments.
There is this circular magnet (about an inch in diameter) in the pan and there were thin metal pieces (around half inch long, thin like needles) attached to it.
Obviously they recommended full tranny rebuild which would cost $2500.
And me being cheap, just told them to flush the tranny and done with it (at least for now because tranny works fine.)
Should I let them rebuild the tranny now? Or can wait until some symptoms show?
Can I take 200 mile round-trip to/from the desert (want to avoid total break down obviously. I had to pay $800 for towing home the last time.)
Again it's ultra high mileage but even so there shouldn't be no big (half an inch long) pieces there?
Sorry I didn't take any photos.