2001 3.0 Taurus Transmission AX4N taking it apart.

[@gusztavlokos5902]

lost all fluid pressure, no vehicle movement. Purchased this 2001 Taurus as is tranny inoperative. I pulled it and it sit's on my garage floor. I have started to work on it, figured I had nothing to lose, the car cost me $10.00, lmao... Your video has given me enough information to give it a try. I'm a disabled-retired electrician, wish me luck, Peace

[@willsrestorations]

The washer you're speaking of running through the pump shaft into the torque converter is not the issue and has never been, the problem is the splines on the torque converter are aluminum and the pump shaft is hardened steel and the pump shaft just tears apart the aluminum splines in the torque converter which will ruin the seal but the main reason is the torque converters have aluminum splines, it is the single most problem with the Taurus transmissions, the other problem is nobody ever changes their transmission fluid.

[@FixingWithPassion]

Yep, I fixed one last week like that...ugh

[@thunderroad7289]

Great video showing tear down. I just fixed one with same problem. I rebuilt the valve body with new solenoids . Solenoid b was bad. Transmission works perfect anow

[@peterscott4597]

Thank you for your transaxle removal video. I now have a better idea what lowering the subframe and removing the transaxle entails. I have a 2000 Mercury Cougar with a CD4E tranaxle and I have to remove the transaxle to replace the torque converter which most like has a bushing wear/clearance issue leading to intermittent converter clutch issues. I will make sure to source a quality converter that attention to the bushing on the converter has been given care. Thank again for this video as it is given more and more confidence to try to attempt this task.

[@FixingWithPassion]

Will be doing this on a 2008 fusion soon. Them transmissions...lol....ugh.

[@Jbrown99th]

Your videos are so informative, thanks you really helped me a ton.

[@FixingWithPassion]

Thanks man.

[@oljames1687]

Thanks for posting this neighbor. i'm starting on a 2005 Freestar. Just got it out and was wondering about a few things. Your video answered my questions. Again Thanks!!...

[@FixingWithPassion]

cool

[@devindexter]

Dreading doing this job but you give me the confidence !

[@FixingWithPassion]

Devin Dexter ...Let us know if it works!

[@EliteMobileSolutions]

I have a ax4s transmission on my 99 Ford Windstar I have few questions Are you able to help answer them... Please pretty please

[@LiCl-k5n]

What is that white sensor on the top called? It is to the left of the flat black female (range sensor)

[@NOMADIKVISUALS]

Hello, Nice videos. I'm wondering if you ever figured out the problem and got the car rolling again?

[@FixingWithPassion]

NOMADIKVISUALS ....yes I did. I drove it for 6 mos before selling it. It was a nice riding car. Turns out the first gear clutches were toast. Spent few days rebuilding the transmission and got it finished. I have a video of what I had to do to the transmission on my channel if you're interested. Thanks for viewing!

[@NOMADIKVISUALS]

A Tvwxman32 I found the other 2 videos and watched them. Very nice work. Appreciate you showing the steps and thanks for the reply.

[@FixingWithPassion]

NOMADIKVISUALS ..Ok...thanks!

[@patriotkennethburlingham7059]

@@FixingWithPassion I'm working on a 2007 taurus same tranny, the forward drive gears do not work as someone else mentioned untill I give it a little gas it will catch the gear but otherwise no. Reverse does still work. I drained and changed the fluid and filter but to no avail. Do you think red devil additive might help or is it too far gone?

[@cadeh9639]

I have the AXOD transmission its really similar to the AX4N almost identical when I dropped the pan I found chunks of a bearing on the magnet I took them to a transmission shop they said it was a spider bearing for the differential the transmission still works it just clunks when it engages from a stop where would that bearing be is that the one at the end that you left in the case of yours behind the gears ?

[@FixingWithPassion]

Yea. The drive chain could be stretched also now. Had one that did that. It was annoying.

[@ronniefaisstfan687]

the torque converter being stripped and bad was the reason why my taurus was 1900 dollars instead of 2500 or whatever price she would have been

[@FixingWithPassion]

Wow!

[@myrddinagain]

my taurus won't go over 25 mph, It's not giving any kind of code. once it hits 25 it acts like I threw it in neutral. and the rpm sky rocket once the rpm drop and the speed gets down to about 18mph it shifts hard into first. is that what yours was doing?

[@FixingWithPassion]

Yea pretty much...Tranny time ;(

[@bentnickel7487]

pikey life I bought a 99 Taurus for $400. because the seller THOUGHT it needed a trans rebuild. I replaced the VSS (vehicle speed sensor) for $35.00 and that fixed the problem. 3L Vulcan engine, don't remember if it was the 17 or 19 bolt transmisson. AMOCO Transmission wanted $1500. to rebuild trans.

[@psyghtseer]

hey nathan. i think my problem is the last thing you pull out which is at 22:00. the car kind of grinds when you hit the gas too hard (or not hard enough) there is about 2-3 degrees of play in the trans and i can audibly hear what sounds like clunking metal from the end of the axle where it goes in at the passenger side when i turn those 2-3 degrees of play. do you think i could have stripped on of the "drive gears" out?

[@teresajones5816]

Thank you

[@lwh7301]

I was hoping you showed how to pull that electrical plug from the case.

[@nomad4life742]

Great video!, thanks!

[@FixingWithPassion]

;D

[@christopherlitton696]

@@FixingWithPassion where are the shift solenoids located?

[@dazmac159]

Aren't the AX4N the same trans in the 1996 taurus? Why didn't Ford upgrade these transmissions, people always having trouble with them!

[@FixingWithPassion]

I know right!....so many parts...anything could go wrong.

[@PyroSoldat]

Cheaper to keep building the same design than doing a whole new one, They really let go of their quality in the early 90's. A faulty CEO, luckily no longer the case, they seem to be innovative again.

[@FixingWithPassion]

Yea seem like quality is picking up some now days.

[@dougjstl1]

How do you check the solenoid for the transmission Sterling in the car the transmission PCS pressure control solenoid regulator

[@NumberOneWithACoke]

Thank you for your video!

[@FixingWithPassion]

No! Thank you for watching! ;)

[@lonniethomas4327]

to take the pump shaft out does the transmission have to be taken apart im working on that has a broke in half pump shaft

[@FixingWithPassion]

Depends on what part broken.

[@lonniethomas4327]

@@FixingWithPassion the oil pump shaft that goes into the torque converter

[@mrflamewars]

Which is worse, The AX4S/AX4N Devil sisters or the Wretched Chrysler Ultradrive series?

[@juanmanuelperez6237]

Very helpful video. I need your opinion with my transmission, I think the front transmission seal is broken because I was driving on the highway and all the sudden i started to to see smoke behind my car and underneath the car. I stopped the car and my transmission was leaking fluid from the junction of thr transmission and the engine Someone told me that it could be the front seal of my transmission, others been telling me that my transmission is fried because when the tow truck driver took it to my house, i wanted to pull it up but it didn't move, the transmission was slipping but so I stopped the engine and my friend told me that i probably burn the clutches. I need your opinion on this. Thank You By the way it's a 1997 ford taurus

[@FixingWithPassion]

burn the clutches

[@juanmanuelperez6237]

Thanks Nathan!!

[@dougjstl1]

Can you check with that while it's still in the car I just pulled off the cover

[@nomad4life742]

Just curious, where is a good place to get the pump shaft & torque converter?

[@zopoundavis6978]

Advance auto warehouse online

[@nomad4life742]

@@zopoundavis6978 Thank you!

[@neilkinney6600]

Maybe it was a solonoid. Regardless it was a very good vid> Thanks!

[@FixingWithPassion]

;D

[@TheCrazybaldguy]

My 97 Taurus 3.0 dohc with the ax4n started slipping under load. Then I began noticing a whining sound that would come and go upon shifting. A few days later it clunked coming to a stop light and the slipping became much worse and the whining sound got louder. I barely got it home. I parked it in my driveway and a few days later went out to start it and the engine would barely even rotate. 113,000 original miles clean California granny car. Sorry for the novel but if you could offer any insight I would very much appreciate it.

[@FixingWithPassion]

Sounds like torque converter went south :( ...Whining noise usually the torque converter. Really hard to tell. Probably tasted some clutches.

[@dougjstl1]

Just do it man don't tell us what you got to do and then do it just just do it take all those bolts off all the way around there some of them are different okay I don't know why they're different but you got to take them all off you're having a lot of fun though where's that at oh don't forget this where's that I can't find it now where is it over here I don't know. Just skip that part let's just keep going love making videos got plenty of time

[@dougjstl1]

I got a 99 Ford Taurus it seems to be pumping oil but it won't go into gear it only has a neutral

[@pauljustis2035]

Hi,could you offer me advice on a 2002 taurus shifts 1-2 fine 2-3 3 is like neutral if pull back to 2 and speed up to or over about 40 mph then shift to O/D will relax in O/D and drive fine till stop.Codes are PO733 Gear 3 incorrect ration,P1783 Temp over condition and P0741Torque Converter Clutch stuck off.I have no experience with trans.Thinking about changing the three shift solenoids and the TCC what do you think? Thanks

[@rockett68601]

make sure your shift cable isn't stretched > when you start out shift to 1 then back to od see if that changes your shifting.

[@pauljustis2035]

Thanks for the reply,changed filter and 6-7 of fluid a couple weeks ago,shifted into 3 (drive) for a while where as 3 was like neutral before.Think TCC? or one of the shift solenoids? can possibly access from side.Now back to no 3(drive)Have to pull back to 2 and speed up over 40 then go into O/D let off gas pedal

[@yilancio]

What were your symptoms of failure? Why you take it off car?

[@FixingWithPassion]

Not shifting into 2nd gear....stayed into 1st unless I floored it! Just didn't shift right.

[@yilancio]

how long do you think (in hours) would take the average backyard mechanic to get at the torque converter assuming they worked w/o interruption? ballpark estimate.

[@SebastianAdamski83]

Hi. I'm wondering how do You know if clutch plates are OK? Or do You replace them always. The same with bands. How do You know they're OK?

[@FixingWithPassion]

I took the clutch packs apart and inspected them. These clutches are somewhat different in each pack.

[@SebastianAdamski83]

OK. But I mean how do you know if the thickness of each plate is enough.

[@FixingWithPassion]

There are ware tabs or slight groves in the material, if the clutch material is smooth and very thin....its prob time to replace them.

[@SebastianAdamski83]

OK. Thanks.

[@jamiekrebs9208]

Did you find what caused that had same thing put clutches in still slipping

[@dougjstl1]

I think all you had to do is replace the speed sensor the VSS you didn't have to take the transmission out

[@FixingWithPassion]

lol

[@uawsux]

It's also is the same Transmission in the 9596 Lincoln Continental POS every hundred thousand miles 90 hundred thousand miles of torque converter takes a dump

[@FixingWithPassion]

Yea true.

[@mrflamewars]

Was there any real reason for using the needlessly complicated, failure prone pump drive in this transmission or was it just Ford being Ford?

[@FixingWithPassion]

I know right?? Its amazing any automatic transmission work at all....;)

[@mrflamewars]

I am not just being hateful. I had a 98 Taurus with the AX4S and it 'sploded. I have a sort of distaste for crappy automatics. The A541E in the V6 Camry I had was divine.

[@matthewkoob9453]

whoa

[@adventurous63]

Only three thousandths difference between 5/16 and 8mm.

[@DelbertSybrandt]

Desperate. They suck and any chicken leg choices for players can be a Viking

[@FixingWithPassion]

They always choke with ambintes.

[@dougjstl1]

Is that what you're going to do is this what you're going to do that's what you don't want to do that I don't want to do all that I only want to do this I'm only going to do this I'm just going to do that so here watch me do this

[@FixingWithPassion]

going to do is this what you're going to do that's what you don't want to do that I don't want to do all that I only want to do this I'm only going to do this I'm just going to do that so here watch me do this

[@dougjstl1]

Just do it man do it quick don't tell us the whole story like you had a hard time doing it so you had a hard time doing that and then you found this and you found that just put your score through it man real quick don't waste your time and do it

[@FixingWithPassion]

lol

[@owensrayfeilds6800]

why talk so much,,,move and work taking it apart n close your mouth.........

[@FixingWithPassion]

You talk too much You worry me to death You talk too much You even worry my pet You just talk Talk too much You talk about people That you don't know You talk about people Wherever you go You just talk Talk too much You talk about people That you've never seen You talk about people You can make me scream You just talk You talk too much You talk too much You worry me to death You talk too much You even worry my pet You just talk Talk too much You talk about people That you don't know You talk about people Wherever you go You just talk Talk too much You talk about people That you've never seen You talk about people You can make me scream You just talk Talk too much

[@bentnickel7487]

Joe Jones 1960. Damn Nathan, you must be at least 100 y/o :-D ;-) :-)