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Rick Inzerillo
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• Albany, NY, USA |
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• Registered on 6/3/2004 |
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 Posted:6/13/2004 20:28 |
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Hello all,
I took my second trip in my used 03 excursion. It has 29K on it. Its a Diesel limited.
About 100 miles into my trip, I stopped at a rest stop. On advice from my dad, I left it running for 3-4 mins while i took care of things. When I got back to the truck, i put it in drive, but I didnt feel the familiar click as it is supposed to go into gear. I pressed the gas slightly and no movemen t. I put it back in N, back in Drive, and same thing. I put it back in P, back to D, and after about 10 secs it kicked in. I drove the other 100 miles home. As I started down the road, I heard an unusual sound, It sounded sort of like i high pitch sucking/whistling sound. Similar to the whine of the turbo but different. It varied with my application of the gas. It seemed to come from in front of the firewall, I think on the left side. After about 10-15 mins, it went away ( or i got used to it).
When I got home, I attempted to back into my driveway (off a fairly busy road) and when I put it in R, i got mostly nothing. I fooled with the shifter some, and at this point, my wife became paniced because we were sitting helpless on this road. Finally, I put it into R, waited a few secs, and began to apply gas to see if it would back up out of harms way. I had to apply way to much gas to get it to move. Almost like if you were trying to backup with the parking brake on or something. So i gave it some gas to get it in the driveway, and let it cool.
I took it around the block 30 mins later. It did something similar, but less pronounced. About 2 hours later, I took it for fuel. I noticed te sucking / whistling even more. I also noticed that doing around 1500 rpm at about 43mph (i think it was 1500) the truck was jerking a little bit.
Anyone have any ideas? This truck has only 1K miles on it from me. I guess ill be headed to the Ford dealer in the morning, and Im not looking forward to getting jerked around so I was hoping to know what it was before even talking to them.
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E. Long
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• Subscriber since 1/1/2001 |
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• Atlanta, GA, USA |
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• Registered on 1/23/2001 |
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Posted:6/13/2004 23:25 |
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Hi Rick,
Welcome to the site and sorry to hear about your transmission woes. This sounds exactly like what happened with my Excursion's transmission at 87,000 miles...although no whistling. What you describe about having to give it "way too much" gas happened to me. My transmission had basically grenaded itself and I suspect yours did, too.
Hopefully you have an extended warranty on it or maybe the factory warranty will transfer over to you since you're still within 36,000 miles. I assume you're the 2nd owner because of you saying that it only has 1k miles on it from you.
Either way, remove any performance chips/mods before you take it in (if you've done any). Ford will keep it for a day or two before they approve warranty repair as they will send out a warranty rep to take pictures of the vehicle and to inspect it -- in addition to what the dealership technicians do.
Please let us know what the results are from the dealership. 29K is very premature for transmission failure. 
-Eric
'67 Galaxie 500 - 390 FE, .030" over, FE to AOD adapter, disc brake conversion. The Daily Driver.
'00 Excursion - 7.3L PSD, LANDYOT Gen-II Radius Rods, Factory Tech Valve Body, 200K+ miles and going |
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