What Went Wrong? Ford Ranger Tear Down 

I cannot even fathom the knowledge needed to put something like that back together. That's why these guys are at the top of the league! Great upload again Rod and Co.

My transmission just started playing up under load while towing when it got warm, so I decided to check online and came across this video. You guys really put it together well. Thank you for this informative video.

As a ranger owner in NZ I very much appreciated the vid , I used an Auckland based auto Trans specialist guy to sort out the shudder in the gear box and he correctly identified the valve body as the problem , Inhave suggested he get in touch with you guys and sends over valve bodies for rebuilds , the cooler thermostat was an eye opener , might get him To replace the existing one with your kit in order to get the system To run cooler and thus save the valve body wear much appreciated

I've absorbed every step, procedure, part and tests you guys conducted blissful in the knowledge I will never have to recall or do any of it - you guys do it so much better! Cheers!

I'm impressed with the amount of engineering that goes into these boxes, & also impressed with your mechanical skills & knowledge. Love these videos.

Good Stuff Guys!. Love the way you articulate your thoughts around causes and solutions. I can appreciate your trans cooler recommendations through your informative video. Great work. Cheers.

What an awesome video. Thanks gents. Love these tear down type vids. Triton, Hilux, Navara boxes etc would be awesome to see broken down.

Awesome walkthrough. Thanks heaps lads. 👌

Gday, I throughly enjoy these videos and good to see another member of the team, I always enjoy learning something new and your videos are really informative, thanks for taking the time to educate us all, cheers

Very happy with our rebuilt transmission from you guys, hoping to have a good run with it now. Cheers, Dave and Fiona, Maitland NSW

love these videos - so interesting about how much goes into a transmission/how much can go wrong

Well explained and educational for Ranger and BT-50 owners with and without transmission problems.

So good to see a tear down of one of these auto’s and glad the internals are generally reliable. I have already fitted one of your coolers and a thermo bypass valve to my PXII Ranger and also a B & M filler tube/dip stick so I can the fluid regularly.

Great video Rocket, love these informative sessions, keep them coming.

Absolutely loved it boys, and I'm a manual guy. Please follow-up with eps on all of the mainstream 4wd autos, love ur work.

Thank you for the very informative video gentlemen. As someone who has the 3.2l Ford auto I am heard of the gremlins and its great to see 99% of the issues are an easy-ish fix when they do start. Always a pleasure watching the in-depth videos you guys do 👍👍

Great breakdown and analysis. I would add that the ongoing mindset of using the torque converter clutch strategy of allowing slip instead of on-off full lockup ( to compensate for these smaller engines to move a big mass) adds miniscule converter clutch material floating through the valve block wearing like an abrasive and in some cases ruins and locks the pump bushing to the converter after blowing out the pump seal. Now add the magical lifetime fluid, and inadequate trans fluid cooling leads to failure imo.

An absolutely "CLASS" episode guys!!! 👌 Love what you have done here, and how you've done it as well. Exceptionally informative, and downright detailed. I own & drive an '18 model 3.2 Wildtrak, back here in South Africa, and honestly don't know of anyone who could and/or would be able to do such a high end re-build of this nature. If ever (touch wood it doesn't) my box "goes" I might actually consider getting a fully refurbished, and cooled, unit in from you guys. BTW, my car currently has 57k kms on the odo, as I also own & use other vehicles as well as a motorcycle or two, on a "rotational" basis.

Cheers guys for putting up a 6R80 tear down, do plenty of valve body replacements across the 6 Speed and 10 Speed Ford boxes.

Within a few weeks of picking up my ranger I spoke to several transmission specialist including you guys to get some advice as I wasn't fully convinced by ford telling me i didn't need to get my trans serviced until 150 000 and got a cooler fitted and the thermal bypass valve changed and it gets serviced every 20000 it's nice to know that most of the issues are to do with valve body

love seeing the breakdown videos

As a young lad looking to buy his first car I questioned why there was a $2K premium for an auto. Now I can see why. Thanks for making this video, showing the faults and recommendations.

Thanks guys great description of the failures Cheers

Worked/Trained with Trev at Swinburne Uni on Stud Rd... His a good egg... Cool video guys... Top Notch 👍👍👌👌

🤦🏻‍♂️ I’m old skool, so manual gearboxes are what I’m happy with, but this just does my head in so I won’t be playing with one of these any time soon. Great job thanks 👍🏿

I really like the teardown videos. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃

Thanks for the video. I found it so informative. Amazing. Thankyou. Bravo from Victoria Australia

Great video. I had a PK and took it back to Ford 3 times during the warranty period due to intermittent faults. After the warranty expired it got worse, Ford said " you have metal in your transmission". I got it fixed and sold it and bought a manual.

I heard about the rangers automatic transmission failed alot & going into alot of mechanic workshops alot but your video is absolutely awesome looks like you guys have done hundreds of ford ranger transmissions keep up the good work guys 👍

Transmissions are scary to me , thank God for men like you guys to get us chickens back on the trail... 😎👍

Great video, more of this guys!

Well done lads, very interesting TA

Wow, so complicated. You guys are geniuses.

Had my PX2 ranger valve body replaced with the nomand.. nice sharp gear changes.. after watching this video I know I need the billet torque converter to make the ranger spot on. Great videos

Loved the video, its has given us knowledge on what to look for. You provide a great service and product.

Wow! I love the way you even got me a carpenter to understand how automatic transmission works..... I myshelf am looking for a nice T6 platform-based 3,2 Ford Ranger Wildtrek with automatic transmission, and wasn't it because I live in Poland in Europe you live on the other side of our planet in Melbourne I would get my truck serviced at your place... Keep up the great videos.....Cheers mate!

You blokes are gold walking. Please stay in business be ause your knowledge and expertise is worth every cent. I will be ordering a cooler for my everest.

Love technical videos like this. Keep it up! I think having more lighting in these hands on, working with smaller parts videos would be beneficial. I'm squinting in curiosity to try and see the smaller parts but am unable to make them out!

This is why u guys are at top of the tree great video guys

Awesome information guys 🍻

Great info guys keep them coming.

Well done Rocket and Trev,you will save a lot of money for the Ranger and BT50 family's out there, and save a few from getting ripped off.

❤gents, fantastic video, I don’t have a ranger but have many customers who do abs that video will really help me advise my customers and when needed, send them your way. Cheers, Matt @ HPF.

Thank you for the informative video guys, much appreciated.

Good video thanks. Its a very specialized job and your experience makes all the difference. I would enjoy the satisfaction of rebuilding and adding a few upgrades to make a better box than the factory. Much as I would love to give it a go, this is a job for the pros with the experience and the skill and the tools. I personally would avoid Rangers like the plague but the epicyclic gearset was impressively heavy duty. and the gearbox as a whole looks up to the job of handling heavy duty without too much strain. I agree 100% about the oil temp killing the oil and then the lifetime is finished. My Commodore had an external oil cooler and the oil never got dark even when I was a bit naughty and didn't change the fluid as regularly as I should. Manufacturers try all sorts of things to eke out a bit of extra fuel economy with thinner oils being one of their tools even if it is not the best for a long happy life. In the end just keeping fluid temps down and changing the oil occasionally is a no brainer vs the $$ of trans failure On the subject of the solenoid calibration, I am pretty sure that electronic diesel injectors are calibrated and when replaced, the correction has to be put in the ECU for pretty much the same reason. I also noticed the valve body didn't have lots of ball check valves like the older designs where it was critical to put them all back in exactly the right place or the transmission would malfunction requiring another teardown. Maybe something has got "simpler"? The flexplate design has obviously been "improved" for cheaper production rather than improved engineering.

Glad you guys know what your doing, looks like a thousand piece whit jigsaw to me Cheers

Great video, well done.

Great video. Most of it's over my head but I get the basic idea. Cheers.

Another great vid. You just don't see this level of detail in many places. Really good to see the valve body. I have the nomad valve body in one of my vehicles and can recommend them if you tow anything. Keep up the great work. Audio a bit low. Cheers.

Great video and explanation guy’s

Cheers guys. Good video.

Mate riveting stuff to watch guys. Pretty impressed with your knowledge on this transmission. We got a px mk2 at home....transmission cooler n bypass now on the mod list. Love these vids keep them coming Cheers from 2 West Aussies in Saudi.

Nice work thanks for the info

Very informative, thank you

Interesting to see behind the scene of a valve body upgrade and trans internals , you guys did mine last week and a cooler and very happy . Isuzu .

Top video. Your trans cooler and bypass valve getting fitted tomorrow. 320,000 on my BT50. Most of those towing.

Recently my Ford XLT150 had undergone that Operation 😅 started with jerking and Chocking of the Transmission gear between 3 and 4 knowingly the process was just amazing to know Engineering was something to Respect

This was so good and thorough how a transmission is actually broken down. I haveba 2010 pk and at transmission shop, get new torque converter. 2nd to 3rd gear revs and thumps....

Great video, informative and interesting. Thanks

im glad you know what your doing . i wouldnt have a clue. great video thanks.

Great vid, good work

I just want to say thank you for going through this 6r80 gearbox tear down. I've got a 2014 bt50 that's on its 2nd auto, the first was replaced under warranty. The second box hasn't really run right for a long time, so I decided to drop the plan, replace oil and filter. I did notice small metal chunks which I reckon was from the old box as they probably reused the old converter. Regardless once I changed the oil and filter i noticed when I put oil back in the box it took 2.5L more oil than what came out! The bastards under Filled the second box which I reckon has damaged the valve body as its still shifting a bit crap, especially when cold. I used a vacuum pump to draw out the fluid which is how I know exactly how much oil came out. Anyway, I might come and visit your shop some day to see if a valve body upgrade is the way to go for what i want out of the box.

I've got a PX3 for a work car and notice that if I leave it sitting for a few days that it doesn't want to drive without giving it a heavy right boot! Great vid fellas

Great video lads

Thankyou very much, very informative. Would love you to explain further as to how the gearbox works. I was expecting something closer to a manual gearbox with selectors. I can’t fathom how this works.

thank you so very interesting so much information God bless you all

Very good Vid guys

Thanks for information

Great video.

Thanks for sharing, I've got a 2007 BT-50 auto with no reverse!

Hey great video again. Would you mind explaining sometime how the valves work? You mentioned how the landings were an issue, can you show more please? Cheers

Great video, guys. Very informative. I own a 2007 Ford Ranger PJ with a manual gearbox, and I have an issue with 5th gear, which pops out when I I put it into 5th and I throttle on. Keep up the good work

Awesome video keep it up...

Amazing when owner of company is not afraid show you where to look for faults. He know he is master in his job so customers will come along anyway. Big thank you for showing your work.

Awesome video, so much knowledge shared, can you do an A750 based transmission next, it's popular used in Prado, LandCruiser, Pajero, Dmax etc

Loved every bit of the video and I must say I have learned alot from this... Having a gear drop on a BT50 not all the time but comes one of, did a diagnostic scan and resulted in vehicle speed sensor out of testing range and one on output shaft sensor so i think its a faulty lead frame. Cleaned all the solinodes and all work fine, but if you or anyone can give tips would be greatly appreciated thanks big fan of your channel from 🇵🇬

TOP MAN ....Best explanation on RU-vid. !...and I love the wee spunky bird , I bet she's a little Tasmanian devil in the dark 🥴😘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great video...

Great video looks like a happy workplace. Would put a cooler on my new bt50 isuzu engine but if anything went wrong then no warranty

Great video fellas. I service my gearbox every 40k. Putting the cooler on at 100k

When a customer rings and says the word '6R80' you guys must get a cold shiver. These boxes are the biggest pieces of shit ever made

Got a 2015 ranger, just starting to have a few issues at 170+ that was an awesome tutorial. Not found anyone in Seq, who is keen to play

It was good to watch

I've had your cooling kit fitted to my PX2 for quite a while. It's awesome. Standard the trans temp often went way over 100deg. I grew up around auto transmission workshops and the mechanics always said exactly the same as you, keep the transmission fluid cool & change regularly. So far, so good. An added bonus was that it not only dropped my transmission temps to about 60-70 deg, but also dropped my engine temps down to the point I can watch my engine thermostat open and close on the gauge at 86deg. Never gets too hot. Anyone that's travelled in the Aussie summer's got to love that. Can thoroughly recommend your product, and so does the trans mechanic that fitted it up here. Great stuff. And I enjoy your channel, too! Cheers PP

Very interesting to watch I have a 2007 ford ranger and has served me well but as we soon need a new vehicle for towing a 20ft van but would like to get another Ranger but I have been watching all the problems the next gen are having I thought they would be a good touring vehicle

Awesome video guys thank you very comprehensive and helpful. Could I ask I have a 2013 Ranger which is making a metallic/ ringing noise in reverse and drive. Could this potentially be the separation of the flex plate to the converter issue?

Very interesting. My 2012 3.2 4 x4 auto Wildtrak has done 296 000 km. Never had a problem with the gearbox. The gearbox oil has never been change. Ford stated the gearbox oil is a "livetime oil", no mention of how long the livetime is. Loved your video, only probleam, is the sound volume is low, a specialy when you turn your heads away from the microphone. Much easier than a gearbix to fix. Great going guys.

Good info

Great video and relevant to me with a PX1 Wildtrak. I read many posts in forums rubbishing the Ranger/BT-50 gearboxes but it seems your experience and this video shows that on the whole they are not that badly constructed (aside from the parts you have mentioned). My Wildtrak is approaching 180K kms and doesn't do much towing at all but does frequent 4WD trips (High Country mostly and not seriously hard core). The only trans work that has been needed is to replace the trans fluid as it was tested and found to have a small amount of water present. Even doing that had a noticeable change in how smooth the trans operated. I was also advised that adding an aftermarket trans cooler with my use cases would not be good value for money... however I am now wondering if spending a grand on a cooler and bypass setup might fend off the need to spend a lot more later on. Ford Service told me that the slightly rough gear changes when the car is cold is due to the trans fluid not yet being up to operating temp and once it warms up it becomes smoother.. something I would agree with. If a trans cooler is fitted, does the trans fluid being used also get changed ? I only ask because I was reading somewhere that the OEM fluid is rated to operate at approx 80 degrees, which is pretty much where my engine sits under most normal conditions. Besides regularly (what is regular for this by the way ?) changing the trans oil, are there any other things that should be done to keep the Ranger transmission in good nick ?

Excellent video. I reckon vaccuum test is performed dry (valve body and valve cleaned and degreased)? I tore down a handful of 30yr old ZF 4HP18 transmissions and I am intending to rebuild them as a beginner.

i replaced my lead frame after work one night after watching how to do it on youtube, fixed the downshifting to second gear on the freeway at speed issue.

Hi Rocket.. love your Videos. It was great to see in detail what is involved in these repairs... I have a Y62 that I just purchased and Nissan said it doesn't need an auto service ever. Its done 150 thousand klms. Do you think you can make a video of you guys servicing my Transmission and showing everyone why they shouldn't believe the huge Auto manufacturers life time claims?

Just like the Hillman Super-Minx auto. This one was a '63 version. Lost drive, because the lugs on the back of the so-called flex-plate snapped or wore off. It was some kind of Borg-Warner trans. Unsure what I did with it. May have tried changing it to a manual, or possibly repowerd it with a 1725 manual setup, taken from a later model that got crushed when a house was demolished on top of it - it had sat, unnoticed in the garage. Anyway, hard-case to see a similar fault reappearing some 60 years later...

That was great 👍 any DCT BMW stuff that you come across??

Awesome video guys I can't wait for the 20th match to get my car in for one of you extreme plus rebuilds on a 6R08 with your twin cooler setup it would be interesting to see what a 320000k looks like on the inside 👍

my ute px2 random slip and missed gear changes , i fitted nomad and cooler 2 years ago perfect ever since ... now just waiting for lock up kit to be available so i can do converter rearmain and lock up all at once. would love to see a video of the pontiac th350 i send down last week

Whats the recommended fluid change interval for this transmission. Excellent video guys

Love it

Lot of Voodoo going on in these boxes

the cooler bypass will also save that leadframe, the plastic gets destroyed from high heat, we run a fleet of F150"s and a few years ago we installed a cooler bypass, larger coolers and removed the lines from the radiator, all our problems went away, we are in California so it is a warm climate, our 6r80's run at 140f