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Dec 5, 2010 | 12:15 PM

amsett

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Reverse shift wait time.

Hi everyone, I'm knew to this forum. I have a 97 f250 powerstroke disel, with about 200,000 miles. The truck works fine, but recently I have notice that whenever I shift to reverse, I have to wait about 2secons for the reverse gear to kick-in. Transmission fluid is fine. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Dec 5, 2010 | 08:17 PM

Gagew90

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transmissions get old and seals wear out unfortunately, one of our old company trucks you had to wait 9-10 seconds to get it to shift into drive

Dec 5, 2010 | 11:15 PM

oldbird1965

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Mine you have to wait the 2 seconds or so and its been rebuilt. I wasn't 2 miles away from the trans shop when I called them complaining about it. He said that they forgot to drill some hole out bigger to allow more pressure, ya, ya ya. Common to Ford's.

Dec 5, 2010 | 11:18 PM

cowmilker08

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I have a delay, but its more like one second. Are you sure its two seconds? My rebuilt + upgrades are 26,000 miles old now.

Dec 6, 2010 | 10:25 AM

oldbird1965

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Mine is at least two seconds. I'm now in the habit of throwing it into reverse before I even come to a stop to get it ready to move backwards. I hate it!!

Dec 9, 2010 | 01:46 PM

cowmilker08

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Hmmm, strange. IDK what to tell you.

Dec 9, 2010 | 02:14 PM

Muktown

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My obs was the same way. At least two seconds. Kind of annoying while plowing when you're constantly shifting back and forth

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Dec 9, 2010 | 08:40 PM

Mark Kovalsky

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That's normal for these transmissions. The valve body can be modified to speed up the reverse engagement. Don't ask me for details, it's been too many years to be able to remember them.

Dec 9, 2010 | 09:03 PM

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oldbird1965

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Awwww Mark, Its only been three years according to your signature! LOL OK, back to earth, I was thinking about a RacerX value body like what Darin did, would that help?

Dec 9, 2010 | 11:40 PM

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Muktown

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Awwww Mark, Its only been three years according to your signature! LOL OK, back to earth, I was thinking about a RacerX value body like what Darin did, would that help?

Call brian at bts he sells upgraded valve bodys I put one on my old super duty shifted real good for a truck with 230 on the stock trans. maybe he can help or modify the valve body for you. As you can tell im a bts fan