Just got the Mark back from Steve. He pulled out and checked the transmission. I had one broken spring, and a bad 1-2 accumulator piston that he found while doing the shift mods. He also said that my tail shaft was not real tight against the trans, resulting in the gasket between the trans and the tail shaft to become brittle and break apart.
Anyway, that is all the bad news for a trans that has over a 100k hard miles on it. I swear I had no clue the spring had broke, because it did not shift bad at all. He installed the PI single 3000 stall torque converter, the deep well Ford Racing aluminum trans fluid pan, and his custom shift mods. He also showed me the old oil pan. I can see why he does not like to power flush the trans fluid. The magnet in the pan had tons of metal all over it. That is why he would rather drop the pan for a fluid change.
Next on the list are the 410's and Trak-Lok diff. They get installed this Saturday . Then... Off to Summit for the M/T DR's and maybe some drag rims if they make them for the Mark, and the need to also have the xcal2 set-up for all these mods. SSHS6 is just a couple weeks away
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/papapeach/markmods004.jpg
Anyway, that is all the bad news for a trans that has over a 100k hard miles on it. I swear I had no clue the spring had broke, because it did not shift bad at all. He installed the PI single 3000 stall torque converter, the deep well Ford Racing aluminum trans fluid pan, and his custom shift mods. He also showed me the old oil pan. I can see why he does not like to power flush the trans fluid. The magnet in the pan had tons of metal all over it. That is why he would rather drop the pan for a fluid change.
Next on the list are the 410's and Trak-Lok diff. They get installed this Saturday . Then... Off to Summit for the M/T DR's and maybe some drag rims if they make them for the Mark, and the need to also have the xcal2 set-up for all these mods. SSHS6 is just a couple weeks away
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/papapeach/markmods004.jpg