In a message dated 00-08-15 14:48:08 EDT, you write:
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This seems to be a common theme for Fords. I had an Aerostar with the
4.0 V-6. Great motor with good torque and after 120,000 miles didn't even
use oil. But the trans. had been completely rebuilt once and it was on it's
4th flywheel.
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One of my former high school auto shop students is now a full-time tech in a
very large Ford dealer in San Francisco. He tells me that Ford rates their
engines at 100,000 miles + and their transmissions just enough to make it
through warrenty. Are we surprised? I can remember when an engine with 50
or 60 k miles was considered over-the-hill. Lubrication, and engine
technology has greatly advanced throught the industry, not so transmission
development.
Rod Schweiger
K-1500 tow vehicle on 2nd trans at 148k miles - and that's considered good!
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