Mark gets the post of the year for me...
Son of a b*tch! I've been looking for a solution just like this for a loooong time. My tranny shop mis-diagnosed the worn servo bore and threw a solenoid pack at it. Dude pissed me off so badly I wouldn't go back. Was thinking I'd go through it myself, even bought an ATSG manual in preparation.
Also wondered why Ford didn't put o-rings in there to start with, Started a servo bore thread on here to no avail. Read every tranny post on here for a year.
And then M4rk comes up with this link. Freaking brilliant solution. Says, "this allows for doing the job by removing the upper and lower heat shields only which makes it possible to do the work in two hours or less as long as you have the right 90 degree needle nose pliers which we sell."
Read what this one dude wrote on the solution site, "Jay Wrote on 9-25-12
"Hi Andrew,
I wanted to let you know that I installed the replacement pistons this past weekend and after a year and a half, I have second gear and over-drive once again! My tyranny problems began over one and a half years and 15000 miles ago. I had been delaying the repair as I thought only a rebuild would get the job done. I now am able to forget all the peculiar driving habits I developed to nurse this thing past second and to avoid 3000 RPMS on the interstate.
Thanks for the fix,
Jay"
It seems focused on SUVs so I shot the seller a note about what it takes to make the servo accessible on the LS. The tranny tunnel is really tight.
Man am I ever hopeful.
Paul
Son of a b*tch! I've been looking for a solution just like this for a loooong time. My tranny shop mis-diagnosed the worn servo bore and threw a solenoid pack at it. Dude pissed me off so badly I wouldn't go back. Was thinking I'd go through it myself, even bought an ATSG manual in preparation.
Also wondered why Ford didn't put o-rings in there to start with, Started a servo bore thread on here to no avail. Read every tranny post on here for a year.
And then M4rk comes up with this link. Freaking brilliant solution. Says, "this allows for doing the job by removing the upper and lower heat shields only which makes it possible to do the work in two hours or less as long as you have the right 90 degree needle nose pliers which we sell."
Read what this one dude wrote on the solution site, "Jay Wrote on 9-25-12
"Hi Andrew,
I wanted to let you know that I installed the replacement pistons this past weekend and after a year and a half, I have second gear and over-drive once again! My tyranny problems began over one and a half years and 15000 miles ago. I had been delaying the repair as I thought only a rebuild would get the job done. I now am able to forget all the peculiar driving habits I developed to nurse this thing past second and to avoid 3000 RPMS on the interstate.
Thanks for the fix,
Jay"
It seems focused on SUVs so I shot the seller a note about what it takes to make the servo accessible on the LS. The tranny tunnel is really tight.
Man am I ever hopeful.
Paul
I do not think it can be done with the transmission in place, though.
