hello everybody
just discovered this great forum and hope to find someone who has got an idea what might be wrong with my transmission (probably a 4r55e?). Symptoms, observations and checks so far:
- harsh shifting from 1/2 and 2/1 and even more so 2/3 but NOT 3/2. 4th gear seems totally unaffected. the feeling is a bit like in a manual, brutally banging in the gears without disengaging the clutch.
- car feels like engine "stalls" for a split second (which in reality it does not, engine runs fine) and then keeps going which causes rearend to rock back and forth thereby causing the springs to make a clunking noise
- problem seems to occur more on slow roll ons and is a lot less dominant under heavy acceleration.
- sometimes problem does not show up for 1 hour or half a day
- shifts seem positive, don't notice slippage
- taken it to a tranny shop in vancouver area but they didn't seem to find a reason for the behavior and suggested a compleate transmission rebuild which i cannot afford. told that guy i suspected electric/electronic problems but he just shrugged and said that if that was the case the computer would throw a code. he did a transmission flush/filter change and also checked the differential. problem persisted despite 450$ spent.
- had a ford dealer read the codes. one error of a faulty EGR valve. had it disconnected without causing any new problems but also without improvement.
- fiddled with the connectors of the fuel injection and to the computer hoping to clean bad contacts. don't know if it is safe to say this but -sometimes- this seemed to cure the problem for an hour up to a few and sometimes nothing improved.
reading in the forum i wonder if the epc solenoid might be the source of my problem. any other suggestions?
thanks a lot!
just discovered this great forum and hope to find someone who has got an idea what might be wrong with my transmission (probably a 4r55e?). Symptoms, observations and checks so far:
- harsh shifting from 1/2 and 2/1 and even more so 2/3 but NOT 3/2. 4th gear seems totally unaffected. the feeling is a bit like in a manual, brutally banging in the gears without disengaging the clutch.
- car feels like engine "stalls" for a split second (which in reality it does not, engine runs fine) and then keeps going which causes rearend to rock back and forth thereby causing the springs to make a clunking noise
- problem seems to occur more on slow roll ons and is a lot less dominant under heavy acceleration.
- sometimes problem does not show up for 1 hour or half a day
- shifts seem positive, don't notice slippage
- taken it to a tranny shop in vancouver area but they didn't seem to find a reason for the behavior and suggested a compleate transmission rebuild which i cannot afford. told that guy i suspected electric/electronic problems but he just shrugged and said that if that was the case the computer would throw a code. he did a transmission flush/filter change and also checked the differential. problem persisted despite 450$ spent.
- had a ford dealer read the codes. one error of a faulty EGR valve. had it disconnected without causing any new problems but also without improvement.
- fiddled with the connectors of the fuel injection and to the computer hoping to clean bad contacts. don't know if it is safe to say this but -sometimes- this seemed to cure the problem for an hour up to a few and sometimes nothing improved.
reading in the forum i wonder if the epc solenoid might be the source of my problem. any other suggestions?
thanks a lot!
