2001 5 speed...should I do anything to the tranny?

[Jackal]

I am hard on clutches...usually having to have some work done every 10,000 miles. (On my 98 Ranger anyway, and my 99' F-150 was getting jerky at 15,000.) I now have 1,800 miles, and I wanted to know if their is anything I SHOULD do to my tranny. TIA -AR ------------------ - 2001 F-150 XLT 4X4 Off-Road, S/C, FS, Black - 4.6L Triton V8 (20 H.P. Increase) - 5 Speed / 3:55 Reg. Axle - Keyless - Premium Audio CD - Mods. - K&N Cold Air mod. - Flowmaster 40 (Stock Setup with 3 1/2" Gibson Tip) - Cranked Torsion Bars - Bugshield - Bedliner - Ventshades

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[Snurb]

I dont understand how you can have clutch trouble after 10K. My last truck was a 93F150 with 5-speed. 105K on original clutch when I sold it. No problems. What are you doing to cause problems at such low miles? Please don't take this the wrong way, but if you're so hard on clutches maybe you should be driving an auto.

[Jackal]

Bad luck I guess. I had a 94 Grand Am auto, that I hated, so I traded for a 96 S10. I dropped over $18,000 into it making it just right, but everything fell apart on it at once, including the auto. tranny, so I traded for a 98 Ranger 4X4, 5 speed, my first 5 speed. All along, the Ranger popped and jerked in and out of gear. (Also had several other problems.) They fixed it at 8,000 miles, and showed up again a 15,000 miles. Could have been my fault, or bad parts. Who knows. Anyway I got rear ended, so I had it fixed, and traded it for my 99 F-150 4X4. It was a little jerky all along, but nothing major except occasional grinding from 1-2. Tried to have it repaired, but they said, "no problem found." So, I now have my 2001 F-150 4X4. It hardly made it off the lot, because the tech drove it, and stated that it was hard to get going, because the clutch wasn't working well. You could hardly get going from a stop, even at high RPM's. Well, when they wasn't looking, I popped the cap on the clutch resivoire (DOT3) and hot fluid shot out like crazy. They had the damned thing waaaay too full. Even now, theirs no air inside the resiviore. To top that off the tranny cross member was missing one bolt, and the other was SUPER loose, so at take off...I'd hear a popping sound. Now that all that is fixed, my truck is perfect, and I want to keep it that way. Thanks for your reply.

-AR