99minneotaexp
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- 99 xlt
I recently was given a 02 Mountaineer with the 4.0 and of course AWD. 98,000 mles on it. My plan is to fix this thing up and sell it. Being unemployed currently it was my mothers way of helping out.
Anyhow, the biggest issue it has is the transmission. when started it will sometimes go into gear, either forward or reverse, and sometimes it won't. If you rev it slightly (around 1500-2000) it will slam into gear. Once it's engauged it will stay that way as long as you keep your foot on the gas pedal. Sometimes if you come to a stop it will not be in gear and as soon as you hit the gas it again slams into gear. After doing a lot of research on here and other places and using a little common sense I've narrowed it down to
the solonoid block or low reverse servo. Being on a budget I'm looking for some advise from the guys who have dealt with this before. I'm sure I could replace a shopping bags worth of parts and probably get it, but the less i can spend on it the better.
Below is a list of things i know, history as I know it.
Issue began after a transmission "flush" when the truck had 60,000 +/- miles on it. the flush was done at a quick change place. It acts like it's low on fluid so i told her to take it back to the quick change place and have them pay for the dealership visit to make sure it was correct. The level was fine. This was 4 or 5 years ago. I know she has had the level checked a couple times since then.
The truck has been driven fairly limited in the last 2 years as it was her snow car but the tranny has not really gotten much worse or better in that time.
Driving it: Once you get it into first gear it works fine, shifts through all 5 forward gears, and if you manually pull it down a gear it's normal. engine brake through 3,2 and 1 works fine. force down shift is good, first to second under hard accel is good. But if you come to a stop sign it may or may not be in first. No 2 to 3 flair. OD works fine, no OD light unless locked out.
I'm leaning towards the solonoid pack, but then sometimes i'm thinking low reverse servo.
As far as I know the pan has never been off.
I'd really appreciate everyones input who has dealt with a similar problem!!
Anyhow, the biggest issue it has is the transmission. when started it will sometimes go into gear, either forward or reverse, and sometimes it won't. If you rev it slightly (around 1500-2000) it will slam into gear. Once it's engauged it will stay that way as long as you keep your foot on the gas pedal. Sometimes if you come to a stop it will not be in gear and as soon as you hit the gas it again slams into gear. After doing a lot of research on here and other places and using a little common sense I've narrowed it down to
the solonoid block or low reverse servo. Being on a budget I'm looking for some advise from the guys who have dealt with this before. I'm sure I could replace a shopping bags worth of parts and probably get it, but the less i can spend on it the better.
Below is a list of things i know, history as I know it.
Issue began after a transmission "flush" when the truck had 60,000 +/- miles on it. the flush was done at a quick change place. It acts like it's low on fluid so i told her to take it back to the quick change place and have them pay for the dealership visit to make sure it was correct. The level was fine. This was 4 or 5 years ago. I know she has had the level checked a couple times since then.
The truck has been driven fairly limited in the last 2 years as it was her snow car but the tranny has not really gotten much worse or better in that time.
Driving it: Once you get it into first gear it works fine, shifts through all 5 forward gears, and if you manually pull it down a gear it's normal. engine brake through 3,2 and 1 works fine. force down shift is good, first to second under hard accel is good. But if you come to a stop sign it may or may not be in first. No 2 to 3 flair. OD works fine, no OD light unless locked out.
I'm leaning towards the solonoid pack, but then sometimes i'm thinking low reverse servo.
As far as I know the pan has never been off.
I'd really appreciate everyones input who has dealt with a similar problem!!
That really is a shame. That really shouldn't have been ignored for so long, but oh well right? Hopefully it lasts a while for the next guy. I think you and your family member would have loved the Mounty for many years had that not been the case, they are awesome trucks.
Im gonna let it cool all the way down and take a midnight store run for a snack and see how it acts. All I know is, shifts are so smooth you can barely feel them on full throttle accel, cant feel it pull while its downshifting to stop anymore, no delayed engagement from a stop or from park, downshifts and goes like it should when cornering and stepping on the gas now. Hard brake and immediate accelleration is spot on. Shifts are on time whereas before, sometimes under normal to grandma driving style, shifts seem to take a little too long or hold at higher rpms a half second before shifting. Very happy. If my cold take offs are fixed I'll give the truck a hug. Seriously, good thing it'll be midnight, my neighbors will really think somethings wrong with me. lmao. Makes you wonder tho, with all the shops and the dealer I called, a large dealer at that, how many people have replaced transmissions in these things that were just low. And whats got me puzzled, is the underneath of the whole truck is fairly clean, My guess is at some point it was serviced and not filled properly or checked cold and too much was allowed to drain or something. Just glad it seems to be fixed now and will keep an eye on it.
