This is certainly resurrecting an old thread! I'll be forever grateful to anyone who sheds a light on my problem. My '93 Ranger pickup has a newly rebuilt A4LD on its 2.3 liter 4 cyl. It shifts at 35 from 1 to 2 and at 45 to 3 and then almost immediately into OD. The warmer it gets the better it performs. From a stop it is very sluggish til it gets to around 15 mph...if I drop it manually into 1 instead at a stop, it goes to a gear I ONLY get when shifting manually, and is not a bit sluggish. Whenever I shift from 1 to 2 (10-15-20 mph), it immediately shifts to (apparently) the same gear I begin in if I have the lever in OD. It operates PERFECTLY when manually shifted...in fact, when cold, I almost HAVE to shift it that way - it won't drop into the gear I get at 1 unless I do it manually. So, dumb questions time: is the 1 indicator a different gear than the gear I begin in when the shift lever is set to OD? It seems that no matter how warm the truck gets, at a stop it won't drop on its own to that gear (is it supposed to? I would think so!) By the way, reverse works with a brief hesitation and a hard-shift bang when truck is first started, then smoothly thereafter. I suspect I have a governor problem and a kickdown cable adjustment on my hands...your thoughts?
