Hard shiftin tranny (I think)
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Hard shiftin tranny (I think)
I have a 92 F-150 with the E4OD and about 145,000 miles. Since I bought it used I don't know about prior tranny maintenance, but I have flushed the system regularly.
Occaisionally I have very, very hard shifts. Sometimes it really did shift gears (the engine rpms drop) other times it is a 'false shift'. The transmission (or what I assume to be some component thereof) sounds like it clunked into gear but the engine does not respond. These problems do not seem to be gear or speed dependent, except that they don't occur at OD. Sometimes I can let off the accelerator and won't get the hard shift, but sometimes it doesn't matter.
I don't have any noises or roughness with the transmission otherwise.
I have browsed some of the posts here, but with the search function down I am somewhat limited. If you could give me an idea of what you think it could be I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Whistler
Occaisionally I have very, very hard shifts. Sometimes it really did shift gears (the engine rpms drop) other times it is a 'false shift'. The transmission (or what I assume to be some component thereof) sounds like it clunked into gear but the engine does not respond. These problems do not seem to be gear or speed dependent, except that they don't occur at OD. Sometimes I can let off the accelerator and won't get the hard shift, but sometimes it doesn't matter.
I don't have any noises or roughness with the transmission otherwise.
I have browsed some of the posts here, but with the search function down I am somewhat limited. If you could give me an idea of what you think it could be I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Whistler
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Hard shiftin tranny (I think)
I had a similar problem on my 1991 F150 302 with E4OD. It would shift extremely hard at times. So hard, I thought the trans was gonna blow. It turned out to be the MLP sensor. Seems that Ford had a TSB out on it. It was getting wet and going bad. It cost me around $250.00 to get it fixed if I remember right. I went on to get 190,000 miles from the trans before I replaced it. Couldn't get it to stop leaking.
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Hard shiftin tranny (I think)
my truck is doing the same thing into reverse and third gear only and it doesn't happen all the time it may be the same thing is there any test that you know of to test the mlp?
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