Automatic Transmission Class Update #3

PRO TIP: When you disassemble the parts of the automatic transmission, lay them out in order. 

After finishing up an overhaul on a 94 Chevy Silverado automatic transmission, my group is now working on a Ford diesel truck's transmission. On that first one we got the full experience of removing the transmission (and drive shaft) from the truck, but on this one the customer brough the transmission in already off of the truck! That makes our job a bit easier to say the least!

We also got to align this truck. 

We also installed a tow hitch on this Honda CRV. 

Taking a picture of the Ford transmission before we started, my teacher jumped into the photo. 

Putting the transmission case in the Viper Jet cleaner.

In addition to strictly transmission work, we've also done a few odds and ends with other projects in the shop. Let's see, we mounted a new trailer hitch on a new Honda CRV, helped another team remove some stripped out lug nuts on two other cars, and got to see a Honda transmission all taken apart. That one was interesting, because the team that took it apart found a broken shift fork, which as you might imagine was preventing it from going into all the gears. 

On the left side of the photo you can see some of the teeth on this gear are chipped up, and there are the metal pieces in the fluid. Replace this gear. 

Back on topic with transmissions, our latest project is an automatic transmission from a big ol' diesel Ford F250, with only about 400,000 miles on it! We found some damaged planetary gear teeth (photo above,) so that would explain why it's not shifting so hot. 

Inside of a Ford automatic transmission oil pump.