Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting SVT tranny situation

so is there any way to "cool" a manual trany? The Taurus guys at TCCA (www.tauruscarclub.com) swear on using 24,000 GVW tranny coolers to extend the life of the auto tranny....

dunno, these engines DO get damn hot!

Hard to know what's going on...they still have my car. Three full days now.

The SA says they can see the problem....the linkages just don't line up the way they should...they just can't figure out how to fix it. They are still in discussions with the mystical powers at Ford engineering.

Tomorrow, I hope to be able to file a first-hand report, i.e., I should have my car back.

That sounds like a transaxle alignment problem to me. Linkages should be in the correct position if the Transmission is correctly mounted to the engine and transaxle.

Brad from the Toronto area has done some thinking on this issue. He uses CEG forums as well, though I can't remember his user ID.

It would be great if we could just adapt the new 6 speed Getrag from the Focus SVT to fit the CSVT!!!! I love the CSVT and my tranny is working fine but if Ford ever offered that swap I'd take it in a heartbeat.

same here... but with an LSD

Got the car back....dealer says they'll call when they get some tranny advice from Ford. I mentioned the CEG list, and rumours that "some guy in the Toronto area" had had his tranny fixed. They said if I could track him down, and find out what dealer he used for the service, they'd call that dealer and see what the fix might be.

This is getting pretty weird.

Craig
Ask to have the tranny looked at by B&N Transmission on Gladstone Ave.
I don't think Campbell Ford is quite up to the job.

Steener: Saw your car and a few others in the lot when i dropped mine 99 silver SVT off at Campbells several times last week. i have been in & out of service with identical tranny problem. They installed the replacement tranny several months ago and have been tweaking to no avail ever since. Bill and Steve, Service Manager and Cobra specialist (?) have told me of their other successes/failures dealing with the SVT tranny problem, even to the point of mentioning having fetched your car at home. Could write a book on the bad stuff at this dealer (damage to valances, claiming to do work they didn't) but won't complain to Ford or BBB until i get the tranny fixed right. If you hear of a solution, i'm very keen to pursue.

Regards,

2711

Hiya linas-welcome to the group!

I guess yours must be the "other SVT" Steve at Campbells mentioned this morning when we talked on the 'phone. (I saw it there last Friday)

I'm really starting to get frustrated with this dealership: First visit, car returns with one of the sideskirts half off the car, grease all over the inside of the front door panels, and both right side tires looking like they'd been rubbed against a curb.

Next visit, they fix the sideskirts, but add some transmission fluid all over the console to go with the grease on the doors, and disable the cigarette lighter for good measure.

Like you, my new tranny is as bad, if not worse than the original. Since the tranny replacement, the car has also developed this weird kind of creaking and snapping in the front end when I start off in first...like something in the drivetrain has way too much "play" in it.

This Steve guys says they're still trying to get some info from Ford engineers in Dearborn.

Good luck to both of us.

Thanks for the welcome Craig.

i too am waiting for Bill/Steve to come back to me with info they hope to glean from 'head-office' engineers. i was inspecting the valances (aka side-skirts?) yesterday, which they re-installed after repairing damage, and at that time noticed my tire side-walls looking like someone (not me!!) had driven too close to a curb. Given all the other 'issues' i hadn't let that one really register - curious how you have a similar observation. We might compare notes sometime; i have a longish list of dealer issues.... BTW, i'm not *that* fussy; i'm pretty reasonable as long as i get a straight story!

See you around....