Daniels2386
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Oklahoma
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My transmission went out awhile back in my 2000 Ford F-150 Lightning. I took it to the "best" tranny shop around my area and they said they would put the stoutest parts they can in it. They charged me $2,200 towards the end of October. I had a 12k or 12 month warranty, but on the receipt it says " Will not warranty abuse".
As you all can tell from my post my trucks been in the shop and NOT running good at all since I put the 6lb pulley on it in August or around then ( motor modification). Well the transmission has been out for the last month and I hauled it on a trailer back up to Tulsa last Thursday. Last week I get a call saying all the gears are stripped and he asked me how much HP this truck has. I said well it hasnt ran right since I put a pulley on it, but I would guess somewhere around 400HP after all the kinks are worked out.
Here is a couple phone conversations:
I asked where did you get the parts? He said Ford Motorsports. I said They dont offer the right rebuild kits or gear trains for Lightning transmissions. He said well I didnt order the parts **** did. I said let me talk to ****. He wont be in till tomarrow. He said he wasnt sure if it was from there but he knows **** ordered the strongest parts available, without having to special order them from FL.
I said what would you guys have warrantied? He said clutches, TRQ converter, and something else. He said everything looks brand new even the planitarys, but it looks like someone has taken a hammer and just broke them off.
I ask what would have caused this? He said abuse. Its like looking at car with 2 newer tires on the front and bald ones on the back. Its just obvious. NOW Im not saying you did that, but from looking at the gear train it is deffinately destroyed.
I said that just doesnt make sense to me...I have friends who are in the 500-800 RWHP that run from 11's to 9's and there on there STOCK transmisson. He said YES that is the key STOCK transmission. I said well they have a FTVB, that is the most popular mod to have on these. "I said and thats suppose to help the life rather than degrade it. He said NO you dont want hard, knock your head off shifts" You want clean crisp shifts. You dont want your tires breaking traction.
I said well I dont understand why this transmission only lasted 3k miles. My stock tranny went 91ish before letting go and your telling me a "heavy duty" transmission only went 3k? All he says is. All he has is facts and he doesnt know how I drive but the facts are the gears are destroyed.
Then he said I have 1 of 2 options.
#1 - I can pay about 7k and get a "monster" transmission because my truck has too much " raw horsepower" and I will continue to destroy them otherwise.
#2 - I can pay 2k and they will re-build my transmission like before.
What should I do?
I took out a loan to pay for the rebuild to begin with, I'm broke, In college, and now have this to deal with.
If you need to know anything else just ask...Im thinking about goin to a lawyer.
Please Help!
This is all the information in a nutshell. For more information on this click this link and it will take you to a thread that may help because of other peoples input. Thank You!
My transmission went out awhile back in my 2000 Ford F-150 Lightning. I took it to the "best" tranny shop around my area and they said they would put the stoutest parts they can in it. They charged me $2,200 towards the end of October. I had a 12k or 12 month warranty, but on the receipt it says " Will not warranty abuse".
As you all can tell from my post my trucks been in the shop and NOT running good at all since I put the 6lb pulley on it in August or around then ( motor modification). Well the transmission has been out for the last month and I hauled it on a trailer back up to Tulsa last Thursday. Last week I get a call saying all the gears are stripped and he asked me how much HP this truck has. I said well it hasnt ran right since I put a pulley on it, but I would guess somewhere around 400HP after all the kinks are worked out.
Here is a couple phone conversations:
I asked where did you get the parts? He said Ford Motorsports. I said They dont offer the right rebuild kits or gear trains for Lightning transmissions. He said well I didnt order the parts **** did. I said let me talk to ****. He wont be in till tomarrow. He said he wasnt sure if it was from there but he knows **** ordered the strongest parts available, without having to special order them from FL.
I said what would you guys have warrantied? He said clutches, TRQ converter, and something else. He said everything looks brand new even the planitarys, but it looks like someone has taken a hammer and just broke them off.
I ask what would have caused this? He said abuse. Its like looking at car with 2 newer tires on the front and bald ones on the back. Its just obvious. NOW Im not saying you did that, but from looking at the gear train it is deffinately destroyed.
I said that just doesnt make sense to me...I have friends who are in the 500-800 RWHP that run from 11's to 9's and there on there STOCK transmisson. He said YES that is the key STOCK transmission. I said well they have a FTVB, that is the most popular mod to have on these. "I said and thats suppose to help the life rather than degrade it. He said NO you dont want hard, knock your head off shifts" You want clean crisp shifts. You dont want your tires breaking traction.
I said well I dont understand why this transmission only lasted 3k miles. My stock tranny went 91ish before letting go and your telling me a "heavy duty" transmission only went 3k? All he says is. All he has is facts and he doesnt know how I drive but the facts are the gears are destroyed.
Then he said I have 1 of 2 options.
#1 - I can pay about 7k and get a "monster" transmission because my truck has too much " raw horsepower" and I will continue to destroy them otherwise.
#2 - I can pay 2k and they will re-build my transmission like before.
What should I do?
I took out a loan to pay for the rebuild to begin with, I'm broke, In college, and now have this to deal with.
If you need to know anything else just ask...Im thinking about goin to a lawyer.
Please Help!