delorean
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- 1996 XLT
Ok so after searching these forums I have seen similar issues regarding problems using reverse gear on older Explorers.
I think mine has a similar issue but it's very strange (I'm also pinning my hopes on it not needing a transmission rebuild). I hope someone here can help me out!
The car drives fine, all gears work, even reverse.
BUT.
Sometimes (now happening more often than not recently), if I put the car in reverse gear, it either:
a) Refuses to reverse at all, or
b) Will reverse very VERY slowly but only with me planting my foot to the floor on the accelerator revving for all my lifer and eventually it crawls backwards.
BUT (part 2).
The car park outside my house is on a little bit of a gradient, a very slight one at that.
If I park the flatter side of the car park it never appears to have the reverse issue. But if I am on the gradient (which I am now) it always seems to happen there.
Currently I cannot move my car and am a bit scared of the costs that may lay ahead of me, not to mention towing costs.
Can anyone help? Any ideas of what might be wrong?
Thanks for your help in advance!
NOTE: I have a 1996 Explorer XLT 4.0l V6, I believe it's an SOHC engine.
NOTE 2: If this helps, the marker on the dashboard cluster that points to what gear I am in is a little off sync (i.e. It doesn't completely line up between R, N and D).
I think mine has a similar issue but it's very strange (I'm also pinning my hopes on it not needing a transmission rebuild). I hope someone here can help me out!
The car drives fine, all gears work, even reverse.
BUT.
Sometimes (now happening more often than not recently), if I put the car in reverse gear, it either:
a) Refuses to reverse at all, or
b) Will reverse very VERY slowly but only with me planting my foot to the floor on the accelerator revving for all my lifer and eventually it crawls backwards.
BUT (part 2).
The car park outside my house is on a little bit of a gradient, a very slight one at that.
If I park the flatter side of the car park it never appears to have the reverse issue. But if I am on the gradient (which I am now) it always seems to happen there.
Currently I cannot move my car and am a bit scared of the costs that may lay ahead of me, not to mention towing costs.
Can anyone help? Any ideas of what might be wrong?
Thanks for your help in advance!
NOTE: I have a 1996 Explorer XLT 4.0l V6, I believe it's an SOHC engine.
NOTE 2: If this helps, the marker on the dashboard cluster that points to what gear I am in is a little off sync (i.e. It doesn't completely line up between R, N and D).