I just purchased one of Greg's Factory Tech Separator Plate kits for my '01 F150 Supercrew 4x4 with 4R70W tranny. Just curious, is there any other replacements of "common" tranny parts when one does this upgrade? I'm sitting at about 47,000miles and my tranny was getting quite sluggish in shifting; what I'm hope is just a needed fluid and filter change. Just figured I'd ask the "experts" so when I have everything dropped out I don't miss something. Thanks all...

 

The only other thing you will need is a transmission filter. everything else is in the kit. Actually I am going to talk to Gregg about adding the filter to the kit it would make it easier for people.
Drain the converter if you have a plug and make sure you refill with merconV fluid. Reuse the stock pan gasket the ones in the filter kits suck. The stock one is the best you can get, they never leak.
Alan

 

Alan, thanks very much. Yeap, got the filter and ready to go...just waiting on the kit and hoping to bark my tires when all is done...but more then that finally have that dog of a tranny flowing some fluid and being more efficient!

Wanted to put a tranny cooler on but need to gather some more cash...it has the passive system Ford puts with it's towing package but my understanding is that it's not very efficient unless your doing about 100miles an hour to push air through it.

On the torque converter...are you able to access that with the pan dropped? or is there a access panel to get to it? I just need to get under there and look...
More to come when the kit is in...

 

There's a rubber dust plug you pull out to get to the converter I believe.