Ford f250 5.4

94BULLITT · Dec 10, 2014

I think a lot of the tans failures are caused by the operator. They don't know how to use a truck with a plow and burn the trans up. Also I see people with loaded trailers backing the truck up a steep grade in 2 or 4 HI instead of 4LO. Then also a lot of people don't service their trans. The 4R100 and E40D were good in their day.

Loadstar · Dec 10, 2014

94BULLITT said:
I think a lot of the tans failures are caused by the operator. They don't know how to use a truck with a plow and burn the trans up. Also I see people with loaded trailers backing the truck up a steep grade in 2 or 4 HI instead of 4LO. Then also a lot of people don't service their trans. The 4R100 and E40D were good in their day.

Highest pressure on the seal is reverse. Factory seals were weak and can cut loose a ATF geyser in reverse. Revised seals eliminate this.

My company has become partial to ford vans. We have lots of 5.4s. I have 56,518 miles on this 2012 E350. We miss oil changes often and run these trucks hard and loaded down. They hold up very well. Company ventured away from GM due to everything besides the drivetrain nickel and dimeing them. My last truck was a chevy and it was annoying having door panels fall off, door latch linkages fall apart, and doors fall off. Prior to that I had an e350 with a 300 inline six and c6 transmission. That e350 was an epic dog, but it was a dog that always got you home. The ford and chevy were auctioned off at just shy of 300k miles. Probably still out there somewhere.

CJONE · Dec 11, 2014

Loadstar said:
Highest pressure on the seal is reverse. Factory seals were weak and can cut loose a ATF geyser in reverse. Revised seals eliminate this.

My company has become partial to ford vans. We have lots of 5.4s. I have 56,518 miles on this 2012 E350. We miss oil changes often and run these trucks hard and loaded down. They hold up very well. Company ventured away from GM due to everything besides the drivetrain nickel and dimeing them. My last truck was a chevy and it was annoying having door panels fall off, door latch linkages fall apart, and doors fall off. Prior to that I had an e350 with a 300 inline six and c6 transmission. That e350 was an epic dog, but it was a dog that always got you home. The ford and chevy were auctioned off at just shy of 300k miles. Probably still out there somewhere.

+1. I purchased 5 new GM trucks for plowing/personal vehicles and the last 2 that I had were junk. Wheel bearings, transfer cases, steering shaft, water pump, rattles galore, wind noise ect,ect. The list went on and just got tired of it. If these were high mile vehicles I could understand but none were over 60k miles. One took lower ball joints out in 15k miles! I was on a fist name basis with the service advisor that was for sure. CJ

wawajake · Dec 11, 2014

CJONE said:
+1. I purchased 5 new GM trucks for plowing/personal vehicles and the last 2 that I had were junk. Wheel bearings, transfer cases, steering shaft, water pump, rattles galore, wind noise ect,ect. The list went on and just got tired of it. If these were high mile vehicles I could understand but none were over 60k miles. One took lower ball joints out in 15k miles! I was on a fist name basis with the service advisor that was for sure. CJ

I hope that service advisor got adept at blocking your fist , or did that method prove best method to get service ?

dieselcrawler · Dec 11, 2014

Loadstar said:
Highest pressure on the seal is reverse. Factory seals were weak and can cut loose a ATF geyser in reverse. Revised seals eliminate this.

Good reason to drop the transfer case into low range any time you are loaded or in a tight spot, as mentioned earlier. Even unloaded I'll drop it in low just for the added control and engine braking. Anytime you can take the strain off the trans/torq converter in thoes situations is going to increase the life of the trans.

94BULLITT · Dec 12, 2014

CJONE said:
+1. I purchased 5 new GM trucks for plowing/personal vehicles and the last 2 that I had were junk. Wheel bearings, transfer cases, steering shaft, water pump, rattles galore, wind noise ect,ect. The list went on and just got tired of it. If these were high mile vehicles I could understand but none were over 60k miles. One took lower ball joints out in 15k miles! I was on a fist name basis with the service advisor that was for sure. CJ

What happened to the transfer case? Did the antirattle clip knock a hole in them?

CJONE · Dec 12, 2014

wawajake said:
I hope that service advisor got adept at blocking your fist , or did that method prove best method to get service ?

He he! No actually he got to be a good friend[that should have said first!] and he knew what I did for work. So he would ask me what needed to be fixed and did it. Save him time because he almost never had to do diagnostics on the pos's. I picked one truck up and the tech forgot to tighten the front driveshaft [replaced tranny] I knew him also, so I pulled in the back and had him tighten it before anyone found out. CJ

CJONE · Dec 12, 2014

94BULLITT said:
What happened to the transfer case? Did the antirattle clip knock a hole in them?

Been there have you?!! Lets see, that one also ate idler arms, until I bought a Moog problem solver and had the tech put that one on. told him to throw the new gm one in the trash. After 4 I got tired of having to take the truck in. That ended up being one of my favorite trucks, drove it another 40k miles to over 100k with only a couple of minor problems. CJ

94BULLITT · Dec 12, 2014

CJONE said:
Been there have you?!! Lets see, that one also ate idler arms, until I bought a Moog problem solver and had the tech put that one on. told him to throw the new gm one in the trash. After 4 I got tired of having to take the truck in. That ended up being one of my favorite trucks, drove it another 40k miles to over 100k with only a couple of minor problems. CJ

My neighbor had the hole in the transfer case happen to him. The guy at the dealer in the part dept had never heard of it, he claimed. The replacement had been repaired. My other neighbor saw what happened and got a pump upgrade kit from merchant auto. I know another guy that had the tcase go out of his.

Diamondpilot · Dec 12, 2014

94BULLITT said:
My neighbor had the hole in the transfer case happen to him. The guy at the dealer in the part dept had never heard of it, he claimed. The replacement had been repaired. My other neighbor saw what happened and got a pump upgrade kit from merchant auto. I know another guy that had the tcase go out of his.

My neighbor also had a hole in his 07 Dmax. It was beyond repair. Truck had 109,000 miles so just out of warranty. He had the fluid changed at 50K and 100K and there was no warning anything was Amis.

I lost a transfer case in my 89 Chevy but can't honestly say what happened. It only had 35,000 miles. When it broke it locked up and sheared the drive shaft off vaulting the trucks rear in the air. Scarry as heck. Luckily I was going under 30 mph.

Chris