tranny swap electrical nightmare

[person371]

hi im new to this site and have already found it very usefull. a couple weeks ago i got a 97 explorer sohc 4x4. the transmission in it now is from a 96 EB, with a 99 engine+engine harness which brought along some wiring issues with the trans harness and sensors. me and my friend have changed the pins around on the harness to match up correctly and also installed a new DTR that matches up to and seems to work correct. we got the tranny from not communicating at all to the point now where we are stuck on the output shaft speed sensor. this sensor seems to not exist on the 96 EB tranny that is in now. the vehicle speed sensor also had to be wired from the sensor to the pcm due to the wires not being there on the 99 engine harness. the problem now is the speedo is not responding and the vehicle will only stay in wut seems to be second gear, which we believe is due to the computer not recieving data from oss. we checked for voltage going from the vehicle speed sensor and it is sending it. any suggestions to get speedo and pcm to recieve the necessary data would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

[BrooklynBay]

Welcome to this forum! Send KBabiak a PM or an email. Get the correct wiring harness, and other related parts such as a PCM. Don't try to play with wiring harnesses.

 

[kbabiak]

hi the 96 has the sensor on the transfercase not on the trans . do you have the transfercase from the 96 explorer? that may be the only way to fix it sorry for the bad news.thanks,karl

 

[person371]

problem solved. needed to ground purple and orange wire for vss. all other work was indeed correct. thanks for your time