99' f-350 7.3 diesel .......Ok yesterday I pulled up to the store -- left truck running in park.. came back out put it in drive .. nothing .. like its in neutral... but it did have low gear so drove it home slowly in low... fluid level good. Never had any problems before .. then all at once ??? pulled the pan today dropped the valve body .. found one of the 3 feed bolts a tad loose ( finger loose) .. tightened it back up ... now heres the problem . after dropping the accumulater plate i only had 7 ---5/16" Checkballs on the floor in the fluid puddle and all the info i can find on the web shows 8 .. but I cant find info on the 99' model .. anybody got the info on how many I should have ?? and location. I have found some pics showing 8 .. If i'm suppose to have 8 then I'm screwed.. if 7 which one do I leave out ? any one of you tranny guys have a spare 5/16" ball you could send me if I need an 8th one ? thanks ... gonna have to walk to work if I cant get this fixed quick...

 

5/16" seems kinda large. In any case I have a few extra checkballs from a recent rebuild but they are 7/32". If you can use one I'd be happy to send it to you.

 

they definately are 5/16" ... they measure .312 .. the holes that they cover are very large also . the smallest ***** this tranny uses is 1/4" . I'm afraid the 7/32 ball would fall thru the hole . but thanks for the offer...

 

Here ya go this should be what you need.

 

thanks alot man thats great - now it looks like I gotta find me a .312 ball check ..... no ford dealers for 40 miles in any direction..gonna have to see what I can do after work tommorrow to try and get to one....

 

Thanks everyone for the responses and photos.. I'll be reassembling today .. crossing my fingers

 

update . Tightened forward clutch feed screw - put valve body back in ..and went from no drive at all to drives like a new one...

 

My pickup did the same thing... just So i don't screw up where is that screw at

 

Can any one give me a diagram on the placement of the check ***** on a 98 4r100

 

I have a 99 F350 super duty with the V10 I bought a used transmission and put in it and it would shift two times and it wouldn't hit third or fourth so I took the valve buddies out took him to the transmission shop and one valve is stuck in the accumulator body so bad they just give me another accumulator body long story short I put them both back on and it still does the same thing but shifts real hard when it shifts anybody know what this might be

 

If it shifts two times it is shifting 1-2 and 2-3, so it is going into third gear. As you found out, a stuck valve in the accumulator body will not prevent a shift.

The first thing to do is to read the codes. Forscan is available free at www.forscan.org. Their page shows how to select an OBDII adapter to plug into the truck. With the codes we will have a good idea of where to start. Without the codes all I can tell you is that something is wrong.

 

See that's the thing there is not a code being thrown at all. I hs it shifting 1st and 2nd real smooth before I pulled the valve bodies and took them to the shop and the guy at the shop put his scanner on it and drove it and told me that was the problem so $325 later same thing but it's back to rough shifting again it shifted rough like that with the old transmission but shifted all the way through this tranny has passed 1st and 2nd yet I have pulled the tranny 3 times changed torque converter still the same

 

The torque converter doesn't have anything to do with shifting.

How do you know it doesn't have codes? Many places don't have the right scan tool and can't read Ford transmission codes. I recommend Forscan. You can download it free at www.forscan.org. Their page also shows how to select an adapter to plug into the truck's OBDII port. I bought mine from Amazon for less than $30. You don't need to buy a license, it will read codes without it.

 

Well I took it to a transmission shop and he had a really nice snap-on code reader whatever it was it was really nice and he knew all about Ford transmissions but he didn't come up with any codes and I have a Craftsman and a launch both of them pretty good computers and neither one pull any codes and when I first installed the transmission it before everything was functioning right I mean it came up with a lot of codes but after fixing those issues or there's nothing else coming up I appreciate your help I'm just kind of at a loss right now I can't figure it out and that's not like me