mtglick
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- '92 4WD XLT
Hi, all, newbie to the Explorer, just to establish my FMC bona-fides I do have a '96 4-banger Ranger XLT 5-speed since new, 225K on the odo, still ticking along just fine on the original clutch!
I'm looking at a '92 Explorer tomorrow for the wife and kids, 4WD, has an intermittent trans problem that I can't explain, would love some insight from the auto trans community.
Apparently, the truck stalls out under braking...sometimes. The behavior is intermittent, and only affects the truck when slowing to a stop. Under all other conditions (driving forward, reverse, etc.) the truck supposedly does fine, including downshifts (so I'm told) when changing gear at driving speeds. Once it stalls, the owner says he just starts it up and drives away, until the next stoplight when it stalls again. He says it will do this for a day or so, then go away for a few days, then it comes back.
He strongly believes this is an electrical fault, but do you folks have any ideas? I cannot for the life of me think of a point of failure that would cause this behavior on the electrical side, if it's a transmission issue I would think it would be consistent--help!
I'm looking for diagnostic tips as well (apparently the CEL does not illuminate under the fault condition), I will attempt to coast it down in neutral to see if it's a transmission issue at all, any other tips are very, very welcome.
TIA,
Matt in TO
I'm looking at a '92 Explorer tomorrow for the wife and kids, 4WD, has an intermittent trans problem that I can't explain, would love some insight from the auto trans community.
Apparently, the truck stalls out under braking...sometimes. The behavior is intermittent, and only affects the truck when slowing to a stop. Under all other conditions (driving forward, reverse, etc.) the truck supposedly does fine, including downshifts (so I'm told) when changing gear at driving speeds. Once it stalls, the owner says he just starts it up and drives away, until the next stoplight when it stalls again. He says it will do this for a day or so, then go away for a few days, then it comes back.
He strongly believes this is an electrical fault, but do you folks have any ideas? I cannot for the life of me think of a point of failure that would cause this behavior on the electrical side, if it's a transmission issue I would think it would be consistent--help!
I'm looking for diagnostic tips as well (apparently the CEL does not illuminate under the fault condition), I will attempt to coast it down in neutral to see if it's a transmission issue at all, any other tips are very, very welcome.
TIA,
Matt in TO