motopsycho650
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- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1994 XLT
So I have a '94 explorer 4x4 4-door with a rebuilt tranny in it.
A few days ago, it started shifting a bit weird. Everything seems smooth except the torque converter seems to lock up too soon. In over-drive, it will try to lock the converter at like 35 mph, which leaves the rpms at only 1000.
In drive, everything seems normal except when I let off the gas to slow down, then put some gas back on. Then it will give me a pretty rough shift into a lower gear.
Other than those two things, there is one other symptom. It's not wanting to downshift it's self for hills. Used to be, at the base of the hill, I could just let off the gas and re-apply it and the tranny would downshift. Now it won't, and under load, it waits way too long to down shift, and usually jumps down 2 gears when it finally does.
My first guess with all of this was that the fluid level was low, (it does leak a little). So, I dropped the pan and did a filter & partial fluid change. This did seem to solve the problem, for the first 2 days at least. Now it's back to the same problems.
Anyways, I hoping someone could help me figure this out. I don't know much about how a tranny works. It seems like whatever controls the torque converter lock/unlock action is acting lazy. I am really hoping it's something easy and stupid...
A few days ago, it started shifting a bit weird. Everything seems smooth except the torque converter seems to lock up too soon. In over-drive, it will try to lock the converter at like 35 mph, which leaves the rpms at only 1000.
In drive, everything seems normal except when I let off the gas to slow down, then put some gas back on. Then it will give me a pretty rough shift into a lower gear.
Other than those two things, there is one other symptom. It's not wanting to downshift it's self for hills. Used to be, at the base of the hill, I could just let off the gas and re-apply it and the tranny would downshift. Now it won't, and under load, it waits way too long to down shift, and usually jumps down 2 gears when it finally does.
My first guess with all of this was that the fluid level was low, (it does leak a little). So, I dropped the pan and did a filter & partial fluid change. This did seem to solve the problem, for the first 2 days at least. Now it's back to the same problems.
Anyways, I hoping someone could help me figure this out. I don't know much about how a tranny works. It seems like whatever controls the torque converter lock/unlock action is acting lazy. I am really hoping it's something easy and stupid...
