I have a 95 SW with 3.8L, 90k mile, and the AXOD/AX4S Trans., that has developed, I believe over time, a continuous dull, thumping sound when putting it into any of the forward gears from park or neutral at idle. I don't think the sound is perceptible in R, and definitely not at all in N and P. The sound will go away with a minimal increase in rpm. I seem to recall that it didn't matter if you had your foot on the brake or not. There may also be, with a little imagination, an additional sound from the trans that it previously didn't have that is your typical dull "it's getting noisy," mechanical wear like sound that "you'd rather not hear" when "you didn't think it was there before." Yes, a trans flush and fluid and filter change are overdue, but I am concerned there may be more to this and "the writing is on the wall" already.
For folks like Rod, and even myself, who really like to encourage others to use the forum search to research and hopefully solve their automotive problems, I poured over what meager results I got from it only to my frustration and exhaustion.
I'm now finding it more and more useless, pointless, and a total waste of my time for my problems. (I think I made my point there
). So, I tried, much to my great disappointment. In fact, I even searched the Windstar forum, as it uses the same exact or nearly the same trans. as I have found on my 95 Winnie. So, enough of my dribble and diatribe, are there any other models that use the same trans or similar enough ones for me to do additional forum searches for possible clues to my problem and its solution? I really don't want to be the pioneer of this on the forum with only to share a sad and scary tale of no success and endless bloodshed, tears, wasted time and money thrown away, as most of us here have neither to spare, but I will if I have to....if I can just get past the bloodshed and tears.
Thanks to one and all.
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07-26-2009, 06:11 AM
