This is Why You NEVER Want to Follow FORD Recommended Maintenance Intervals

[Music] hey everyone welcome back to the shop once again real quick here I have a 2012 f150 in the shop that I'm doing a bunch of maintenance on it's got about 98 thousand miles on it and it's a really good example of why you don't want to follow the ford recommended higher intervals for maintaining your differentials your transmission your transfer case all that stuff because you're gonna have a lot of hard part failures down the road that's going to be on you not for it okay your and get out of the warranty period and meanwhile they can you know advertise that their vehicles are low maintenance or maintenance free and it's not advertising ploy meanwhile your vehicle and you are gonna frickin pay for it let's check this vehicle out and I'm gonna show you what I mean alright let's take a look under the vehicle you can see all my lights hanging in here I love my lights under the vehicle so I could see what I'm doing and stuff like this see what kind of color the fluid is that's coming out now this one right here we're doing a front differential service on here and you can see yeah we have water that got into the front differential on here which is really bad okay because not only does it not lubricate as well as the gear oil but then a different steel components inside of there start rusting and then a lot of times when oil mixes with water it becomes acidic and that just starts eating up all the metal parts in there not a good situation hopefully they caught this one in time because hard part failures are very very expensive moving on down here to the transmission doing a pan service on here there's no issue to this transmission as of right now but look how dark this fluid is on here it's ultra black now this is merkon LV which gets darker faster but it does break down a lot faster too especially in the bigger heavier vehicles like this maybe towing stuff like that it's gonna break down not only that but look at all these solenoids that around here these transmissions nowadays are all largely solenoid based so there's no servos and bands anymore and these certainties freakin solenoids are very sensitive to any kind of contamination the fluid in here there's been a lot of T s B's and a lot of known concerns with contamination causing these to not function properly okay not only that but these also six are sixty and six are 80 have a lot of solenoid or not solenoid but valve where issues inside the valve body here lots of them so you don't want to give them any more reason to wear out any faster than they were originally designed to wear out with the wid there you know the hardness of their medals and lot stuff you don't want to give them abrasives to do it any faster okay look at all this right here this is the trans range sensor it's got magnet in there you can see all the metals in the backside of it now that's normal that's regular break you know break-in of the transmission but you gotta remember it's broken in now and all that stuff is just kind of flown around in here you know so it's not a good situation it's gonna wear your transmission up that much faster let's take a look down here at the pan you can see the fluid yeah it's really really bad and imagine I left flown around there let's take a look at the filter yeah I mean it's a high-capacity filter but believe me these suckers get plugged up big-time you don't want all those flowing around in your transmission now the transfer cases they seem to be a little bit better but I still recommend then be changed out much much sooner than Ford recommends I recommend every 30,000 on these because of the fact that it only takes about two quarts so you might as well change them out that much sooner and keep these from exploding remember there's no external cooling on these you want to keep that fluid maintained so I can keep pumping through there and keep everything lubricated and added a package renewed in there now the differential back here this one again is all original so what we're going to do is we're going to pull the cover on this one next I'll give you a look inside of here since we're gonna do a full cover removal and a wipe out in there I'll show you how bad these can get waiting to you know 100,000 miles like Ford says here's a peek inside the rear differential on the same truck ninety five ninety eight thousand miles doesn't look so bad right but the fluid that came out here was nice and dark because remember that's only air-cooled and it does break down after a while this on the rear cover gives you a better idea of what's actually floating around in there and how the fluid is uh breaking down so you can see you don't want your stuff running this way especially when a rebuild on these is very very expensive alright so what do you guys think that's a real good real-life example of why you don't want to wait to change your fluids on your vehicle don't wait for the scheduled interval that Ford says to use because you're going to end up paying for those hard parts later down the road it's going to be any change out of Ford's pocket meanwhile if you maintain these fluids you'd be surprised at how long the engine the transmission even the differentials will last because the additive packet is renewed all those contaminants are out and they just keep on trucking and working as designed okay the fluids there for a reason it's providing that film and that coating and anti corrosion properties anti-foaming agents there's a lot that goes into them to keep these things operating through all these different temperature extremes hope you guys got something out of this i'll see you guys next time

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Length: 6min 18sec (378 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 27 2018