well she bugged me and bugged me and bugged me so we went to look at it and i was trying to find the littlist problem it might have she was wanting to slap me. but finaly convinced the guy to let me drop the trans pan (4r55e) and it had a little contamination but nothing severe it drove out fine but that wasnt the end of my search after i put the pan back up i was crawling around underneath and couldnt find any leaks but the guy seemed real relucktent(spell?)to let me crawl around under there so that just fueled my concern couldnt find as much as a valve cover seep we were almost going to write him a check and believe me at that point i was not very happy theres been times at my shop were every rack i had (6) was holding up an explorer from 1990 to 1999 but i just had one more concern i wanted to see if it had an external tranny cooler and thats when i found it the entire bottom of the core support was rusted out i mean completly gone! so that was the end of that she agreed but was disapointed so she bought a pair of race flag checkered leather seats so shes happy im very happy shes keeping her truck hey, i might even get some!

 

"You can do it! You can do it all night long!!!!!"

 

 

oh great...now I gotta crawl under my g/f's and check this out too...one nice thing about the truck is I don't have to suck in the gut to get under it, the exploder you gotta suck in everything!

 

im very glad that we decided on not buying it and you might want to check that core support out i crawled under one at my nieboring shop and thers were rusted out too so maybe thats an ongoing problem for them other than trannys and clogged oil pick up tubes talk to you later on my next dilema

 

Well I couldn't help it so I checked my g/f's but it was fine...a lot of it could be where you live that caused it, like the rain/snow.

 

ROAD SALT

 

yep, ohio wheather will do that we have 2 seasons here winter and construction

 

Driven on I-71 lately? We now have construction 12 months a year.

 

you expect it when you travel but my construction sends me 15 minutes out of the way AFTER work and wont be done for another year and a half but thats life talk to you later