My '02 Explorer flashed the O/D light on a road trip last week, but we kept driving for about 75 miles to get it home. The SUV All of a sudden just Slammed into reverse with no implication that anything was wrong!! So I pulled out onto the roadway and headed to Wal Mart to buy fluid NOT THINKING!! Wade this car has NO DIPSTICK!! So when I left the car wash the forward gears seemed to be perfectly fine, that is Neil it went to shift UP TO 3rd gear!!! After third the engine just went into a REV as if I had put it into neutral!! So I dropped it back into second and it scurried along!! A I now have NO REVERSE AND NO HIGH GEAR!!! I first thought!! OMG THISNIS GONNA BE COSTLY!!! But after doing my homework!! I found that this JUST MIGHT BE AN EASIER FIX THAN I HAD INITIALLY THOUGHT!! When this happend and even after I had ABSOLUTELY NO INDICATION THAT ANYTHING HAD COME ALOOSE INSIDE OF THE CASE!! I heard no grinding or clanging sounds!!! So I said to myself this HAS GOT TO BE A FLUID PRESSURE SITUATION!!! Now I find this site online called ( ) Tis company has come up with a quick fix for the Survo issue that is a VERY VERY COMMON Failure in these 5R55S,N and any other 5R55 transmission!!! From what I gather from all of the reading and reading some other owners of vehicles that array these very granny's, at around 70,000 and on up to 104,000 miles either the Survo/ SURVO's or the Inner Solenoid goes bad!!! So for me I have NO REVERSE AND NO HIGH GEAR!!! After contacting my cousin that does transmission work he got a price for the parts and the parts ALONE ARE $750.00!!!! And that is without the labor charge and just in case we happen to run into some sight unseen problems!!!! Now I'm not your typical everyday person that just knows that in order for you to get from point A to point B oh simply put the key in the ignition and go!! And when it don't crank you call the mechanic!!! NO.THAT AIN'T ME!!! I'm very mechanically inclined!!! I once worked with my Daddy after school and on weekends on vehicles.mainly early models and on some 90's model cars and trucks!!! With the newer model cars,trucks and SUV 's I just don't have the tools to work on them!!! So I have to contact the mechanic!!! So with this issue it is possible for ANY HE OR SHE to replace the SURVO's however I am still not yet clear on should I or shouldn't I also replace the Solenoid as well!!! I just think that replacing BOTH SURVO's and NOT REPLACING THE SOLENOID is just asking for more trouble!!! After all ISN'T THIS A PRESSURE THING WERE TALKING ABOUT HERE? So with new SURVO's and an old SOLENOID ISN'T THAT LIKE DRAINING HALF OF THE ENGINE OIL AND REPLACING IT WITH NEW OIL? RE: HALF ASSING IT!!!Īndy, I am interested in your product, but have a question. People like to have options.Īndy my friend, I think I have to agree with you on this one!!! As an owner of a vehicle that I just 5 months ago purchased, and now that very vehicle is just sitting IDLE in our yard because while at an about attic car wash I went to back up. We give them as many options as we can unlike people who just do a rebuild automatically. The cutting the exhaust is an option also which one of our customers did and we decided to put it down as an option. That is not to say it does not happen we know it does. The process of getting them out though is the most time consuming part of doing the fix with the tranny in place. We have had only two people report back and or call having a hard time getting the snap rings out because of sticking or corrosion. This is also not our recommended way to do the work.Īs to the corroded snap rings in the case, most of them aren't, and if they are that is part of doing work on a vehicle you can run into those issues. By the way how do you get it out when you take the transmission out to rebuild it? You take out the cross member, you break bolts. We give our recommendations to only remove the shields as our best practice.įor the option of removing the cross member, we actually state that you will probably break one or two bolts. It is up to the person doing the work how to do it. If you read the instructions or our website we list four options for doing this work. I was all set to allow and reply to your 1st one then you sent this one which is very un-professional for someone in business. Frank here is my second comment to your cross burning comment.ġst of all I debated whether to allow any of your posts because of this comment.
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