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Mick Montgomery
1998 Ford Explorer 4 litre automatic in the UK.
Hoping that someone can point me in the right direction with this, as the Ford Dealer isn’t much help. When I am travelling fast on motorways, speeds around 70 mph, if I take my foot off the gas there is a noise (I think) from the transmission that sounds like a small cog spinning round very fast. If I put my foot on again, even slightly, it goes away. Its been like this for a while, just happening occasionally/intermittently, but recently its happening every time I go out on the motorway, but not during local driving, say speeds up to 50mph. A few weeks ago, I was in heavier traffic on the motorway and so was breaking a lot more and this time the noise remained right down to low speeds. After pulling off into the services, with the drive in Park, I was still rolling forward and reverse wouldn’t work. It was like some cog was not in the right place.
I got towed home, tried it the next day by driving forward and it somehow corrected itself, but I am back to the noise on the motorway.
The Ford dealer said the transmission fluid was low and topped it up but couldn’t recreate the problems I was having (and for some reason were reluctant to take it out on the motorway to try). I am wondering why the fluid level wasn’t checked at the last service that was very recent. I saw some other messages that indicated that problems with the regulator/loss of voltage or something like that could cause changes in gears.
Anyone got ant ideas?
Hoping that someone can point me in the right direction with this, as the Ford Dealer isn’t much help. When I am travelling fast on motorways, speeds around 70 mph, if I take my foot off the gas there is a noise (I think) from the transmission that sounds like a small cog spinning round very fast. If I put my foot on again, even slightly, it goes away. Its been like this for a while, just happening occasionally/intermittently, but recently its happening every time I go out on the motorway, but not during local driving, say speeds up to 50mph. A few weeks ago, I was in heavier traffic on the motorway and so was breaking a lot more and this time the noise remained right down to low speeds. After pulling off into the services, with the drive in Park, I was still rolling forward and reverse wouldn’t work. It was like some cog was not in the right place.
I got towed home, tried it the next day by driving forward and it somehow corrected itself, but I am back to the noise on the motorway.
The Ford dealer said the transmission fluid was low and topped it up but couldn’t recreate the problems I was having (and for some reason were reluctant to take it out on the motorway to try). I am wondering why the fluid level wasn’t checked at the last service that was very recent. I saw some other messages that indicated that problems with the regulator/loss of voltage or something like that could cause changes in gears.
Anyone got ant ideas?
