AX4N Disassembly

1999 Ford Taurus
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[@johnmccarty1650]

Just had this same thing happen today to my 99 Taurus SHO with 61k miles. Hope the shop takes good care of my rare car 😟

[@CurmudgeonTransmission]

Hope they do as well. Thanks for watching.

[@JBM802]

When this transmission was being designed, the engineers were tasked with it being able to tolerate 220 foot pounds of torque. in the end they said it couldn’t be done so they played with shift strategy and what not. So we got failures

[@CurmudgeonTransmission]

Thanks for watching.

[@nobodymporta]

Amazing.... granddad taught me motors .... this here is another ...monster 👏👏👏👏

[@CurmudgeonTransmission]

Thanks for watching.

[@mecanicodiver]

Olá!! Agradeço por postar vídeos que não tem em meu país,mas gostaria de pedir que ponha as legendas,por favor ...com elas eu aprendo termos técnicos e vou forçando o ouvido a entender o seu idioma

[@CurmudgeonTransmission]

Takes a long time to do it manually, but will get to it when I can. Thanks for watching.

[@robertfrias3439]

Will you ever do an assembly video?

[@CurmudgeonTransmission]

I guess it got lost in the mix. I do have the clips. I will get it edited and up as soon as I can. Probably a week or 2. Thanks for reminding me. In the mean time the 4F50N assembly is almost identical. The valve body portion and channel plate will be different.

[@CurmudgeonTransmission]

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[@DGC-k6m]

What sensor is that white electrical connector near the neutral safety switch?

[@CurmudgeonTransmission]

It is for all the solenoids inside the transmission.

[@lep-me6tg]

Hey, I have a 66rfe transmission can I use a 68rfe rebuild kit to rebuild it?

[@jeedwards1981]

What causes the torque converter splines to strip out? It seems like it spans a WIDE variety of years of the AX4N, you would think theyd have fixed it.

[@CurmudgeonTransmission]

The metal they used. They never did fix it. Enough of them got past the warranty so I don't think they cared.

[@jeedwards1981]

What years were affected? I have a 99 taurus dohc with the ax4n@@CurmudgeonTransmission

[@CurmudgeonTransmission]

All of them. It is the number one failure with them.

[@jeedwards1981]

It makes no sense, on the forums some guys have 350k miles on original trans and TC. Im baffled why only some it happens to. @@CurmudgeonTransmission

[@fubodubo2178]

​@@jeedwards1981basic maintenance, doing regular fluid changes and driving like you care about your vehical. Thats why you see old Hondas surviving only 230k even though some of them hit 500k+