Upgrades and Aftermarket - 7.3L EngineUpgrading and adding aftermarket equipment to your 1999-Up Super Duty or Excursion with 7.3L Power Stroke diesel engine. Please confine discussion of topics in this forum to those items that are specific to the 7.3L Power Stroke engine.
My good ole 4R100 is finally starting to develop some slip. I'm good friends with a local trans shop and I know he's been through the 4R100s before. He told me to go ahead and pick out a kit and torque converter and he would put it in for me. If yall could give me some recommdations it would be much appreciated.
My truck only has some small mods, nothing extreme (see sig). And I am operating on a college student's budget. Please don't try to sell me a BTS, it simply isn't necessary for what I do. Plus there's no way I'm going to spend 4 grand on a trans, that's half the value of my truck.
So far the kits I've come across that seem to be good buys are the:
RacerX is the new kid on the block, but seems to know his stuff. Suncoast has been around forever and has a good rep.
The Suncoast kits will cost $495 for the basic clutch kit plus another $337 for the coast clutch kit for a total of $832 not counting the torque converter. Does it also include the valve body? Torque converters cost anywhere from $200 to $1,000, and I would go with a Precision Industries Stallion 13" PowerStroke converter at the high end of the price scale - because that's the one that is included in a BTS rebuild. Precision Industries - Stallion Power
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My Sierra Blanca is a '99.5 PSD CrewCab hot-rod Towing Machine! BTS tranny; Ford Severe Duty Air Induction System (AIS); 4" stainless turbo-back exhaust; DP-Tuner tunes flashed into an Edge Evolution tuner; ISSPRO EV gauges and Turbo Temp Monitor (TTM); Auxiliary Idle Controller (AIC); SP-Diesel exhaust brake and torque converter controller. Top Job front end replacement. I special-ordered it new and plan to drive it until it quits.
Do any of the above listed rebuild kit's also come with a new front pump? or the the soleniod pack that mounts on the valve body and a new transmission pan? Just a few of the things I know a good transmission rebuild needs.
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2003 BLACK Excursion Limited 7.3 4x4 w/DVD entertainment center, rear captians chairs, 3.73 limited slip. 4" MBRB Stainless Exhaust, AFE stage II intake, DP F5 Tuner, 4.5" Donahue lift, Rolling on 18" Jesse James Lawless 8's wrapped by 35" Toyo Open Country Mud Terains and airbags, Prodigy brake controller.
2002 BLUE F350 XLT 7.3 4x4 Crew Cab short box, BTS Tranny, 6.0 tranny cooler, 4" Silverline Stainless exhaust, S&B intake, DP F6 Tuner with 9 tunes. Line X, B&W turnover ball, Prodigy brake controller.
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Do any of the above listed rebuild kit's also come with a new front pump? or the the soleniod pack that mounts on the valve body and a new transmission pan? Just a few of the things I know a good transmission rebuild needs.
New front pump - I can get a rebuilt one if need be.
Solenoid pack - I won't be replacing it unless I experience problems with it.
New pan - I think the original one is just fine, albeit a little dirty on the outside.
My trans still shifts nice and crisply, it's just I can feel a little slip when accelerating in OD.
What ever route you go, make sure you keep enough in your budget for a larger tranny cooler, or you'll be back in the same boat needing a rebuild in a short amount of time.
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2002 F-350 crew cab, long bed, SRW. 4 inch exhaust, 6.0 tranny cooler, AFE Stage II, High Performance tranny from Mountain Transmission in Montrose Co. DP Tuner F5 switch stock, 40tow,60tow,4low exhaust brake, 80econ, regular exhaust brake. DB Starter, Ranch Hand front bumper,
ITP in tank and prefilter mod, Harpooned tank. Custom front springs/leveling kit (thanks Spring Works) with Ranch RS9000 front shocks. Centramatic Wheel Balancers
Other than increasing the clutch capacity, quality TC & larger cooler when rebuilding a trans yourself what other options are out there to improve the longevity...within reason of course?
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2001 Excursion XLT 7.3L 2x4 178K
DPTuner, Air Springs
Spiral snap ring for the OD piston (ive heard the transgo HD2 tugger kit has this included), increasing pump pressure, iirc you can also drill out the drain back in the front pump seal area to increase lube flow. Suncoast offers upgrade parts...i picked up an extreme kit and plan to pick up other parts to give my installer...
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'01 PSD 7.3L Excursion Limited EBM1, 8.5" lift, rear Deavers, 37" PJs, 16x10 Black Rockcrawlers, ORU dual shock hoops, Rancho 9ks all around, Magnaflow T304 system w/5" tip, FTVB w/50/50 mix regular Mercon/Mobil 1 in trans, Mobil 1 PS flush, Tri-pillar loaded w/Di PriCols (EGT,trans, boost), TS 4 pos. switch chip, ConFerr Rack, Cobra CB, TT/sig mirror conversion, 170 hi-amp alt, Hi Lift equipped, UltraDuty rearend cover w/Mobil 1 syn. w/OE friction modifier, Hutch/ITP intank mod, 2 Micron Dahl PrePump, FPR Jack shim mod@ 70psi, 203 deg T-stat & billet housing, Hawk pads, Centric rotors, Valvoline synthetic brake fluid 105.5k so far...
Recent mod: Dieselsite Coolant filter 4/21/05 @ 1100 @72 degs. F ambient temp ;P
Currently sittign in the driveway with a blown up tranny Dirty X Clean X
Anyone else use the suncoast rebuild kit and a TC from powerstrokeconverters? No real horsepower mods just pulling the race car in a 28' enclosed trailer.
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2001 F250 4x4 crew lariat 7.3L auto, DP Tuner F5 no-start/valet/20tow/80econo/140aggressive, powerstrokeconverters.com triple disc, transgo tugger HD2, ISSPRO egt/boost/pyro, foil delete, 6" stainless tip, Magnaflow 17979 4" turbo-back, dieselsite boots & coolant filter & HX crossover, Fleetguard LF9027 or LF3630 hi-cap oil filter, Rotella T 15w40, DIY 6637 Tymar, billet grill, line-x bedliner, bug deflector, tint, 08' alum diff cover, clear corners & tails, silverstar bulbs, Xtreme XT855 reverse lights, 1500w inverter, Tekonsha Primus, EQX, Epicenter, Autotek MM4000.1D, 2x Audiobahn AWT12X, 2/0 cables, JVC KD-AVX44 El Kameleon dvd deck.
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