Friday, Apr 06, 2007 at 21:01
That seems like good value, if they gave you the heavy duty towing package... But maybe they just gave you part of it. The last one I did, the kit cost $2500, but that was probably more involved, maybe upgrading all clutch packs and servos and such...
As far as I know, all of the F-250's in Australia have the same 4R100 transmission. It was discontinued in 2003 in the U.S. and all the available stock was used up in the Brazilian Factory. As far as I can determine, they are all the same transmission...
They might have been reading information, in that the 4R100 running on mineral oil based fluid is not really recommended for severe duty towing, fluid has to be increased to full Synthetic. The synthetic is superior in many ways and takes higher temperatures before breaking down and munching the tranny. And what they might have been reading is that the transmission since 2003 in the U.S. is the 5R110, that comes designed for full synthetic only. Almost no transmission shops have ever seen a 5R110, and I do not know of any 4R100 transmissions that have failed, when running synthetic. I would switch to the synthetic. About half of the Ford Dealers here in Oz will tell you that, the other half don't know........
It is definitely the way to go. If we hear of a 4R100 tranny dying on synthetic, check to see if it was abused first on the mineral oil befoe switching over...... I have spent long hours to do up two of these, to learn.....
Regards, Ranger
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