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Old 04-09-2001, 04:25 PM
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welp my worst fears came true today.....the torque converter came apart and thrashed the tranny...shes in the shop now getting a tranny overhaul...is looking like she will be ready come thursday...thanks god for an extended warranty..is only going to cost me 100 plus car rental..so not to bad...

oh yeah...for a rental...i ended up with a '01 F(lipped) O(ver) R(ussian) D(unebuggy) Explorer Sport 4x4 heheh..time to treat it like a true rental.....
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Old 04-09-2001, 07:08 PM
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dang, how many miles do ya have? thats pretty serious for a 1999. At first i thought you meant Eleanor as in "Gone in 60 seconds" nice car.
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Old 04-09-2001, 07:46 PM
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she got just a touch over 47k on her... i drive the hell outta that truck heheh...

whats funny...well to me..is when i bought her...i got home..looked at her for a few mins and the name Eleanor popped in my head..dunno why ...then i saw gone in 60 seconds in the theaters and Eleanor in that movie...very nice

just thought it was kinda funny
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Old 04-09-2001, 09:40 PM
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Make sure the garage doing your tranny flushes and then back flushes your tranny cooler. (If you have one) A person on the Dak site just replaced their rebuilt tranny because that was not done.

Just a thought
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Old 04-09-2001, 10:26 PM
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nod nod will do..i dont have a tranny cooler on it...but one will be installed with this rebuild..the taanny thats in it is the A-500 model i think...from what the mechanic told me thats one of the main trannies that needs a cooler...
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