I found out that my transmission needs a rebuild yesterday...the hard way as usual. My clutch release bearing slipped as I wanted to shift from intermediate to high gear. Don´t know if the trans was the cause for this or only a bad clutch adjustment. but the trans needs a rebuild anyway. Towed the truck home today and pulled the trans.
Removed the top cover and took a look inside. Thing I noticed are:
- Input shaft wobbles
- shift lever for 1st gear and reverse is out of adjustment
- when turning over by hand in 1 gear a bearing makes noise
- rear seal leaking
- trans fluid level seemed kinda low to me, don´t know if that´s supposed to be like that. I put a screwdriver in next to the gears on the passenger side. There was about 2 1/4 - 1/2" of fluid. The gears were in the fluid and picked up fluid when turned.
During driving I had all kinds of problems which I now know where cause by the transmission. I had a bad stumble upon acceleration in all gears, a whining noise in 1st gear and a knocking sound when letting the truck roll in any gear. Reverse was sometimes hard to get in.
The gears look okay to me, but what do I know. I looked for rounded off edges etc. but didn´t see anything terrible.
Here are some pictures:
I also took some videos, I´ll see if the youtube upload will work this time.
The identification tag on the transmission says:
RAT - H - 3
075582
The tag on the driver´s door says "C" for the transmission option. So it´s the 3 Speed Ford L.D.
Now my question is: Where can I get a decent overhaul set for this transmission? Which parts should I consider replacing with the above described observations? Is my transmission a 3 speed Tremec transmission? I found this term when searching for parts.
Thanks!
Florian
