Thank you Ronster. Did you do the work yourself, or have a shop do it? If I may ask, what did it cost you?
Drop cross member let transmission droop down not easy but can be done on jack stands in about a hour.
Thank you Racer!
Did that fee include setting it up to match the sequence on your wrist?
Do all the complaints revolve around early 2018 MT82s anyway, with some sort of aluminum shift fork, corrected in late 2019?
It has a checkered history of complaints from before it was even introduced once people found out it was made in China. The only substantiated claims I can think of have been the early remote mount shifter locking out gears at high RPM and the shift forks on the early D4s that you mentioned. Both have been addressed.
To be fair, my ‘22 locked out of gears under high load when new. I didn’t really get on it until after 3k miles. Crossmember insert and shifter bushing replacement seems to have fixed it with negligible NVH.
There is no lawsuit without a duty by a party to fulfill an agreement and some demonstratable injury due to negligence to uphold that duty. You have a blown transmission with no proof that it is due to defects in workmanship or design. The number of perfectly functional MT82s in the world is in the millions. Ford has no duty to repair a 9 year old car with 90K miles on it. I'd say your chances run somewhere near zero.
