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I purchased my 98 csvt in about November. When I bought it I knew it was a fixer upper, but the lady that sold it to me told me that she had had the tranny rebuilt a few months earlier. She couldn't find her reciept but Gave me the shops name and# and said to call and give them the vin# and they could send me the records. Now this thing was grinding everytime you went near 2nd, 3rd was terrible, and if you were in it it would grind 4th, so naturally i didn't believe the lady.
About 3 months ago I took my baby to a friend of a friends shop. this guy has done several auto trannys for me, he even did my 98SE trans after i pulled it. So anyway he gets under the weather and instead of him calling me and sending my car back, he subs it out to another shop. I called the guy several times and finally yesterday he gets it back andhe tells me that they screwed it up! It won't even go into reverse or 5th, my brake lights were stuck on, and the B*$#H is still grindin' every once and a while in third!
Okay I went and got my car today,(4 the record I didn't give him a dime!)and I drove thru parts of GA & AL some interstate in 4th gear. I got it home and fixed the brake lights 1st. Then I start looking at getting 5th and R, but its not gonna happen, pretty sure i've got a bent fork there.
But the point of all of this is how can this thing still begrinding if the synchro's have been replaced twice?
2nd question is what does the Focus shift tower look like? I had heard that the contour one was plastic and the focus metal.
Sorry I got long winded but I'm pretty upset.
I don't "mod" I just fix what breaks!
98 CSVT #2527 T-Red (Limping)
98 CSVT #2228 T-Red (Donor)
98 SE Sport ATX V6 (Running again)
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Step 1.- Stop having Rednecks repair your tranny.
Step 2.- Pull the trans.
Step 3.- Send it to Terry Haines.
How under a the "weather" was your friend that you couldn't wait an extra couple days for him to do it? 
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-'98 SVT 1,173 of 6,535
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Originally posted by todras:
Step 1.- Stop having Rednecks repair your tranny.
Step 2.- Pull the trans.
Step 3.- Send it to Terry Haines.
How under a the "weather" was your friend that you couldn't wait an extra couple days for him to do it?
Step 4.- Get someone to kick you in the nuts for not following steps 1-3.
Honestly people - I don't know why anyone would trust someone other than Terry to rebuild their tranny  These strip-mall tranny shops simply do not know how to fix/work with the MTX 75, so you may as well walk outside your house stop the first car you see and give them $2000 cash and wave good-bye, if you're gonna get some redneck to do your tranny cos it's the same thing.
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You think for being a Jedi Knight he would have felt the need for lube in his near future.
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Originally posted by todras:
You think for being a Jedi Knight he would have felt the need for lube in his near future.
Ryan
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Originally posted by Stazi:
I don't know why anyone would trust someone other than Terry to rebuild their tranny
Meh..... I don't know about all that.. My tranny has been holding up really well with the rebuild, 30k miles ago.. Not to mention, this was when the 3L was also installed, and the car has seen several powershifts in those 30k miles.
Mark
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what kind of fluid is in the trans?
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Originally posted by Y2KSVT:
Originally posted by Stazi:
I don't know why anyone would trust someone other than Terry to rebuild their tranny
Meh..... I don't know about all that.. My tranny has been holding up really well with the rebuild, 30k miles ago.. Not to mention, this was when the 3L was also installed, and the car has seen several powershifts in those 30k miles.
Mark
You got lucky & got someone knowledgable. The 1%-ile.
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Originally posted by lowbudgetracing:
what kind of fluid is in the trans?
Does it really matter?  Unless they dumped 5W-30 in it.
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-'05 Mazda 6s, loaded, g/f's ride
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You mean Ford dealerships have good mechanics?  Originally posted by todras:
Originally posted by Y2KSVT:
Originally posted by Stazi:
I don't know why anyone would trust someone other than Terry to rebuild their tranny
Meh..... I don't know about all that.. My tranny has been holding up really well with the rebuild, 30k miles ago.. Not to mention, this was when the 3L was also installed, and the car has seen several powershifts in those 30k miles.
Mark
You got lucky & got someone knowledgable. The 1%-ile.
Ryan
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