KEB1 said: (quoted from post at 16:30:28 12/30/08) "only cost $145...$5 a mile + $85 to put the truck on the rollback and $45 to put my trailer on the rollback's hitch and tow it too" That's why we have AAA, they would cover the tow.
How do you know its the front seal if you haven't dropped the transmission yet? Are you sure you didn't damage anything else if you ran it out of fluid? If you actually ran it out of fluid I'd be really leery of just replacing the seal and putting it back in.
By the time you figure labor to take the transmission out, flush the transmission cooler, the cost of a rebuilt transmission, re installation, and provide a year's warrantee on the rebuild, $3K doesn't sound that far out of line. If you get free labor from your son, that's obviously a big savings, but you also have to consider the cost & time involved in moving it.
Keith
I never claimed it was only the front seal. The dealer called me and told me that after they pulled it into their shop, they never dropped the tranny because I didn't give them a go-ahead to do so.
The flid dumping and seal blow-out was just a visible symptom, and was almost positively the end result of an underlying internal problem that likely caused pressure to build and take out the seal. I had just pulled over for fuel, got down the on-ramp and back onto the Interstate for about 1/2 mile when it started dumping fluid onto the exhaust pipes and I shut it down immediately to hopefully prevent any further damage.
I do think $3,350 is out of line for a rebuilt unit including R&R though, my son works at another Ford dealer and he can usually pull that tranny in about an hour or two and then a couple hours to put in the rebuilt unit, get it set right, etc. We may in fact put in a rebuild unit but until he cracks it open we won't know, if it only need a torque convertor and associated parts it is a $1,000 job. We just don't want to go off the worst case right away without even checking it out.
Many decades ago when I worked at a garage during high school and college I remember putting brushes and diode trios in alternators, putting carbs kits in, etc. and now the "repair" shops are just "replace" shops. So if it is more efficient and controlled to do the rebuilds offsite, which it likely is, and just do a replace onsite, why is the cost so high? Who is gaining from that efficiency...not the consumer obviously.
Wow...we sure took a tangent on this one. I just wanted to know how wide my truck was :-)
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