And Finally, the story on the green/ornage sticker (which I'm pasting form asomewhere else..)
I do have what is prolly great news for those of you with the imfamous green and orange stickers...THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THOSE TRANSMISSIONS, well, nothing wrong with them caused them to get a sticker anyway.
The scoop on the stickers is this, I asked a tech in Validation, and he says that they are for SPC purposes only. SPC is Statistical Process Control. What they do, is every so often (ussually after a tooling or holiday shutdown) is they run a certain amount of boxes with these stickers. IF one of them comes to a dealer for repair within a certain time frame, the tranny is replaced and the broken one is shipped in for validation to analyze and evaluate. A sticker run is typically 30 days worth of production. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
But the important part is, there is no reason to expect then to fail any more often than non-stickered units, they just want a sample of ALL FAILURES for a given period.

 

Just a yellow tag refering to TSB 00-16 and 4R70W exchange program, I have emailed CARB to see if it is a legal transmission for California emissions equipped vehicles to have. Other than that I love the new truck and was just wondering about my tranny. I don't see acode but I will look again when I get home

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2001 Lariat Supercab 4x4 5.4 Deep Highland green over Arizonia Tan, very nice color combo.

 

Seems to me I remember a Green tag exchange program discussion and the conclusion was it was a tranny marked for quality control. In those cases if anything went wrong with it the dealer was not to rebuild but to replace and send back the whole unit to the factory so Ford could tear it down and study it. Has nothing to do with the tranny itself nor wether it should be in the truck or not. A yellow tag? I'm not sure. Maybe it's the same thing only a different year? Factory_Tech should be able to shed some light on it for you.

I wouldn't at this point conclude you have a wrong tranny. Its just that no one has enough info to understand why some California trucks are showing up with a 4R70W attached to a 5.4L like the other states do. I would assume that there is a model of 4R70W that meets the CARB rating now and it is being used in some California applications. Factory was trying to get info and run this down but it seems he doesn't yet have enough data to work with. Hopefully he will come back on and direct you to the exact location to collect that data. Then we will know something.

 

Qman, never call the "Man" until you know what the answer is. He may "help" you more than you want him too!

 

Seriously, the way the gub'ment is, they may take the transmission outta your truck and tell ya to deal with it.

The Tag I'm asking about is on the side of the transmission, not the pan. It should have a large 2character code and some small lines like XL3P-7000-BA, BD 8F15, PRB-LgH
etc....It's stuck to driver's side of the case, just forward of the extension housing.

 

2001 7700 5.4L Supercabs are only 4R100's

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Badd Andy

2001 Toreador
F-150 Supercab XLT
7700lb, 5.4L, 4R100
Tow Packg, 3.73
Foglite mod
Headlites Relayed
A/C cutout switch
RS 9000's all around
Bug & Wind deflectors
Short rubber antena
98 ANGLER 8.6 Camper
95 Windstar w/replaced head gasket
97 Susuki Bandit 1200
87 Yamaha XT-350