The car (1999 Taurus LX) is headed to the recycler next week after the transmission (AXOD) went out which was a week after a hit and run in a parking lot. The hit and run was relatively minor but made the decision to crush the car a bit easier since any transmission work would exceed the value of the car now that it's got a damaged rear fender and door.....at least I think it would. I'm trying to balance a full-time job along with getting the hay put up so don't have time to try to find a used transmission or consider opening this one up.
The tranny failure occurred without advance warning....at a stop light it just wouldn't go....no forward or reverse. The shifter works ok and you hear a bit of a change in engine/tranny sound when you move it from park into gear but there just isn't any movement.
I pulled the tranny pan to drain the fluid before calling the crusher. To my surprise, the pan magnet is holding onto a broken section of pipe, about 4" long with a 90 degree bend (attached pic). The transmission fluid line that's broken off comes across the bottom of the transmission above the filter and bends upward. It terminates in an upright position and is capped off.
While this particular car is dead, I'm curious if anyone knows if the broken pipe is the cause of the tranny failure. My thinking is that the pipe broke off and the pump could build no pressure. Might have been a simple fix? But I have no idea why the pipe would break....
The car had 150,000 miles and was driven from Montana to Fairbanks Alaska and back again a few years ago. I've got no complaints about it. It was a state of Montana motorpool car that I bought at auction in 2004. I just bought a 2005 last week from the same outfit. I'll install a extra tranny cooler like I did on the 1999 and hope to get another 100,000 miles out of it.
Any thoughts on the broken pipe and transmission failure?
The tranny failure occurred without advance warning....at a stop light it just wouldn't go....no forward or reverse. The shifter works ok and you hear a bit of a change in engine/tranny sound when you move it from park into gear but there just isn't any movement.
I pulled the tranny pan to drain the fluid before calling the crusher. To my surprise, the pan magnet is holding onto a broken section of pipe, about 4" long with a 90 degree bend (attached pic). The transmission fluid line that's broken off comes across the bottom of the transmission above the filter and bends upward. It terminates in an upright position and is capped off.
While this particular car is dead, I'm curious if anyone knows if the broken pipe is the cause of the tranny failure. My thinking is that the pipe broke off and the pump could build no pressure. Might have been a simple fix? But I have no idea why the pipe would break....
The car had 150,000 miles and was driven from Montana to Fairbanks Alaska and back again a few years ago. I've got no complaints about it. It was a state of Montana motorpool car that I bought at auction in 2004. I just bought a 2005 last week from the same outfit. I'll install a extra tranny cooler like I did on the 1999 and hope to get another 100,000 miles out of it.
Any thoughts on the broken pipe and transmission failure?
