2006 ford focus 2-4 overdrive/intermediate band??

Tennisshoes... ive actually read that you can replace the band without even going into the transmission. Unlucky for me all the threads are so many years old so nobody will respond so i was hoping to get some clarification on it. Maybe youre thinking about a different band?

Its just simply the band that helps the shifting for 2nd and 4th gears. Im definitely a noob but from what ive read its a pretty simple job that many noobs have done themselves and saved a lot of money. I definitely dont have the money to have it done in a shop

I FOUND IT! yeah you were definitely thinking of something else but thank you for your response and for trying to help. Here are the instructions incase someone else is having a hard of a time finding them and by the way you have to buy from a ford dealership and it is called INTERMEDIATE BAND. some people call it the 2-4 or overdrive band but they will have no idea what youre looking for if you call it that. I wish there was a video but these are pretty good instructions. To remove: - Disconnect Battery and remove it ( 10mm nuts) - Three bolts on the battery tray. Two in the bottom and one on the firewall side. Remove all three and take out the tray. - Loosen the lug nuts on the driver side tire - Jack up that car high enough to get the driver side tire off the ground and you can get under the car to remove the lower mount bolt. Put a jack stand under the driver side now too. - Remove the driver side tire - Remove the driver side wheel well cover. A number of plastic screw inserts that you slowly unscrew the head, then grab with pliers and pull straight out. The front bottom of the well cover has one bolt, and one real screw too. - Remove the single - horizontal bolt in the lower trans mount. See pic 4. - put a jack under the engine/trans to hold it from dropping. - remove the 5 nuts under where the battery box was that are all part of the top engine mount plate. - see pic 3 Now, lower the jack and the engine/trans will drop about an inch and a half on the driver side. Looking in through the driver wheelwell you will see the end cover on the transmission - see pic 1 - remove the trans cooler line from the front of the end plate (17mm) - remove the bolts from the end plate. I had to remove the very top one with a closed-end wrench reaching down from the top. All the others I could get to with a short socket. - put a drain pan under the end of the trans ( very little will drain though) - pry the trans end plate straight out until it is free, once free pull out slightly the bottom at an angle and then dropping it down. Make sure when you have the cover out that there is no shim or bearing stuck to the end of the center hub that could fall off and get lost. You can then see the Reverse Cluth Drum and the Intermediate/Overdrive Band goes around it. Looking through the wheelwell, the upper left of the housing ( about 11 oclock) there is a bolt coming down through the top of the housing that makes contact with the upper end of the band. Unscrew that bolt a number of turns to release the upper band end. Pic 2 shows the drum after I removed the band. The band will then pull straight out towards you. Make sure you soak the new band in trans fluis for about 30 minutes prior to installing. Put the new band in and screw the anchor bolt back down ( pic 5) Reverse this order to button back up. ( cover back on, trans cooler line, etc.)

Good luck but I think you will rue the day you try that one.

Full_of_regrets ...why do you think that?

This is by far the most usefull info i have found on this topic. Ford 1990 keep up the good work. Too many of these sites concentrate on gloom and doom and the catastrophes that will happen if you try something yourself. Thanks bud and continue to be bold!

Im not done singing your praises yet fordtough1990. Lol. I would like to add that not only is the band you spoke of easily changed by this method, the forward clutch ( 1st) and the reverse clutch assembly as well as the planetarys for above are also. Hopefully other poor souls who need this fix will also find this post and find much relief at not having to remove the trans. By the way i am actually a licensed hd mechanic and i can tell you nobody knows evrything about evrything. Plenty of us old boys are benefitting from the new online wonder gadget called a smart phone. And it takes lots of guys willing to share info and daring to try things outside the box that levels the playing field with the dealerships monopoly. Thanks again

Do it yourself is right! I'm not a technician. I'm a welder by trade, but I also do my own concrete, carpentry, and so on and so forth. Fixing your own vehicle, whether it's the head gaskets on a 2006 Subaru....which also calls for water pump, timing belt, thermostat, tensioners, pulleys and actuators if you don't wanna be ripping it back apart 15,000 miles later or you're doing shift solenoids "A" and "B" in the transmission valve body of a 2006 Ford Focus. You hit the nail on the head as I have a 2006 ZX4 with 170,000 miles on it and it still runs like a champ, doesn't consume oil, and is clean enough to eat off the engine. When it comes to a rough or "slipping" tranny in these, 9 out of 10 times it's the shift solenoid "A", but mind as well replace "B" while you're in there as these are the second most common to fail. But if like your vehicle is slipping and has lost the overdrive, it's 9 out 10 times the intermediate band. In which case you will also want to test the line pressure control solenoid and replace the band actuator as someone else said above. I have saved my wife and I so much money by tackling these jobs myself. I'm also with you on the doom and gloom theory. No one ever wants to say, do it yourself....it may be a pain in the ass, but you can do it without ASE certs and a little bit of motivation. Which for me always is saving a butt load of money, teaching yourself something new, and the satisfaction of repairing your own vehicle! Don't listen to the ones that say you shouldn't attempt this, that and the other or it's not for a nooby! The only way you're going to learn and do all this is by doing it yourself, hands on! So keep on keeping on and don't stop working on your own vehicles brother. I also believe if you want something done right and to your own liking, is by doing it yourself! Good luck, happy wrenching and God bless all you homegrown mechanics.

Hello To Fordtough1990 and GuruWYCRF I have a 2006 Focus ZXW with the 4F27E trans, making a distinctive chatter/rattle on the 2-3 up shift under light load. I read your band replacement process with great interest. Any way you could send me the pics you refer to? djenkins3435@protonmail.com. Thank you so much, and more power to all the guys who are willing to do this stuff on their own.....!!!!!