ironwrigger
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- City, State
- barrie ontario canada
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 99 explorer xlt (sohc)
my tranny history: I rebuilt this trans about 8 months ago. Took special care with VB rebuild. Transgo kit added. Installed all soft parts, and any hard parts that needed replacing? except the govenor. Also miked, measured and disected every part. Went back together without a problem. One week after rebuild trans was slow to upshift, 3 to 5 miles before she would shift properly. I decided to check the govenor. I didn't want to buy a new one , because of the cost. So I cleaned and polished that govenor to within a thousands of inch of its molecules. Shifted perfect after that. No problems for 8 months.
New shifting problem: It's back to the slow upshift again with a twist. sometimes when I come to a stop and I'm not stopped for more than 5 or 10 seconds, when I take off it's in second and then I feel it shift down to first and then it's OK again. also after an hour of non stop highway driving, when I do stop I feel the tranny shift down to first, but I've already been stopped for 20 or 30 seconds. This last thing has only happened twice, so I adjusted the bands and I think I've got that problem solved. Jeese, this is gettin long. Now the upshift problem. I noticed when it won't shift out of first, if I manually shift into second it shifts right away, but revs to the moon if shifted into third or OD. This is all happening between 1 and 3 miles on a cold start. Again, after the 4 th or 5th mile everthings warmed up and she's good to go and shifts fine until I park it for more than 2 hrs. I'm hoping its the valve body bolts or the govenor? Oh ya, the tranny fluid looks and smells like new. Thanks in advance to any and all advice or suggestions to these issues.
"NEVER A PROBLEM, ONLY A SOLUTION"
New shifting problem: It's back to the slow upshift again with a twist. sometimes when I come to a stop and I'm not stopped for more than 5 or 10 seconds, when I take off it's in second and then I feel it shift down to first and then it's OK again. also after an hour of non stop highway driving, when I do stop I feel the tranny shift down to first, but I've already been stopped for 20 or 30 seconds. This last thing has only happened twice, so I adjusted the bands and I think I've got that problem solved. Jeese, this is gettin long. Now the upshift problem. I noticed when it won't shift out of first, if I manually shift into second it shifts right away, but revs to the moon if shifted into third or OD. This is all happening between 1 and 3 miles on a cold start. Again, after the 4 th or 5th mile everthings warmed up and she's good to go and shifts fine until I park it for more than 2 hrs. I'm hoping its the valve body bolts or the govenor? Oh ya, the tranny fluid looks and smells like new. Thanks in advance to any and all advice or suggestions to these issues.
"NEVER A PROBLEM, ONLY A SOLUTION"
