I have owned my 88 F-250 4x4 for about a 2 years. I have never spent much time working on vehicles but this one was getting too costly to have someone else work on it. After engine work right after I bought it, a rebuilt t-case a few months ago and some other odds and ends my wife just gives me the look when I talk to her about the truck.

I was having a problem with the transmission not shifting into 1st from a cold start so I thought another big bill was due, but after searching this site for a while I found the problem and the cure. $17 later she (the truck) is shifting just fine. Now I can talk my wife into getting the exaust worked on since I just saved her all that money.

Thanks again guys.

 

Congratulations!

 

What a great first post! Welcome aboard.

 

So what was the problem??

 

vacuum modulator.

 

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