460 or V10
So hubby and I are looking at some older class C's since that's what we can afford right now. 96 - 01 years We would like to tow our 01 grand cherokee behind whatever we get. So do we need shorter ...
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WinMinnie02 wrote:
pnichols was your vehicle bough new or used? Just want to know if my 2002 will give me trouble soon? I have had good luck so far since purchasing it new in 2002
We bought our 2005 Itasca Class C in January of 2006.
The tranny shop will tear our original 5R110 tranny completely apart in a couple of days to find out in detail what went on inside - over and above the burned clutches they discovered early-on. I'll call them just out of curiosity to see what they found.
One thing I may be doing in my driving - that I've been told is hard on automatic transmissions - is generous use the Tow/Haul mode when going down grades so as to take maximum advantage of engine breaking instead of the brakes. The tranny sometimes really spins up when doing this - with the torque coming into the tranny from it's back end (the rear axle) instead of it's front end (the engine). I wonder if I'd better stop doing this - which may consequently increase my rate of brake pad replacement? You can't win for loosin'. :h
P.S. ..... OR, I wonder if my repair shop didn't put the wrong type of tranny fluid in it when I had them completely flush it at 25K miles? Ford is adamant about using ONLY SP FLUID in their TorqShift transmissions, but some mechanics may not know, or pay any attention to, this .... and just put good old Mercon fluid into the later year Ford transmissions.
