What's going on?

[Billabong02]

This morning on my way to work the o/d light started to blink. I turned the car off and started it again and it still is blinking. I noticed that the car wasn't shifting smoothly. It does shift but sometimes its alittle harsh. Sometimes it will shift into o/d and other times it won't. I took it to my local place and the guy told me that my transmission is going up. He said i should trade it right away. The car has 127,000 miles and i have done the regular changes for the transmission. I have taken it to the local ford place to have it looked at. This has just happened out of the blue. What is going on? oh yeah, i check the fluid level its fine.

 

[TPLYNCH]

Try disconnecting the battery for a while, then see what happens. The tranny threw a code and went into fail/safe mode, that's why the shifting pattern changed. Sometimes, just resetting will clear the code and the tranny will be fine. If you do that and it does it again, get the tranny codes run and report back here. It could be a very simple fix, and not a rebuild.

 

[stilbo]

Not totally sure but many Ford vehicles require that you depress the brake pedal while the battery is disconneted in order to discharge stored power in the computers. So you may want to try this while having the battery disconnected.

You also may want to drive the X gently after reconnecting the battery and get it to upshift 1-2-3-4 up to highway speed but don't floor it. This allows your transmission to program.

Also check O/D Torque converter lock up by driving above 45 mph and while x is in 4th gear just TAP the brake while watching the tachometr. If lock up is working, you will see rpm drop about 500 rpm. Loss of lock up is fairly common.

Make you X transmission last forever and get the fluid FLUSH not just a "change". I've gotten over 500,000 miles out of three Explorers and NO (knock on aluminum) transmission problems.

 

[Billabong02]

Thanks for all the help. I took it to ford and they said that the torque converter was slipping. They flushed the trans and the coverter and its shifting fine. I traded it in this morning on an 03' acura. I am gonna miss that thing.

 

[IZwack]

AHAHAH from an explorer throwing TC codes to an Acura in 5 days - thats america alright

 

[Billabong02]

lol