Okay so 45 days ago I bought a 2004 F250 V10 super duty extended cab obviously. Anyhow about 8 days ago I started having shifting problems between first and second and I didn't know and I still don't know actually as to the true accurate answer whether or not overdrive is supposed to be off or on when you're just driving around in town I would think naturally assuming the way things work in the world today that you would have to push the overdrive off right like so that you don't have it constantly in overdrive if you're not constantly in overdrive. That being said I didn't know I was supposed to be turning off or on every time I drive, nobody told me that and nobody still really indicated that. But I haven't taken it from it's automatic, but I haven't taken it from first to second to to drive. So I've been manually doing it just not so gracefully because it's an automatic. The problem is now that last night while I'm driving up I live out in the country I'm driving up a hill and I'm going 50 on the back roads and it just like spiders and stops like having any power I get to my mom's did my work for her. I get in the truck restart it and I smell something that it almost smells like burning plastic anyhow nobody else can smell it but me. I get ready to leave my mom's I'm driving down the road and it starts stalling sputtering stalling sputtering over and over it's not getting power every time I push on the accelerator it's not accelerating, it literally just gets to a point where Ties on me. So I look at my fuse box because I realized that my lights for my shock system are on or anything like that well upon looking I realize that my 20 amp box and a few fuses are blown so I replaced them thinking at that might be the problem I got halfway to town and it did it again died on me in the middle of traffic on the bridge. So first of all my question is any thoughts or ideas please please please tell me what anybody thinks it is. Secondly in my description as to what I felt like the stalling sputtering noises were and feelings and sounds of the vehicle my closest descriptor is when spark plug wires are touching or touching something they shouldn't be and the way that the car starts kind of like just choking out or vehicle does that's kind of like what it felt like except for a job she just dies. Anyhow the Transmissions just says it needs a new solenoid but the car has do the truck has 227,000 f****** miles. Which buying a used vehicle for $13,000 I think I got ripped off right haven't even had it two months and it's all having this many problems I owe 10 grand on it I need to fix it cheaply and quickly I'm a single mom I don't have any way to fix it with a lot of cash.

 

The overdrive On/Off is more of a personal preference and dependent on road conditions. Either you turn it off so your truck stays at higher RPM in lower gear (think towing, hills, etc..) or turn it on for cruising on flat pavement at high speeds with no load. It doesn't matter which you choose, just choose what is best for the conditions.

Do you have a code reader? That would help narrow down the issues.

You have fuses which were blown in the fuse box under the dash? Do you recall which ones were blown?

A choking/stalling you describe could point to fuel issue... There are pinpoint tests to determine what component it would be but generally seem to go back to the pump from what I've read on the forum.

 

General rule of thumb, if you're not towing, leave the overdrive switch alone. And if you are towing, only switch out of overdrive if you find it kicking in and out a lot.

 

$13,000 for a 222,XXX mile truck that's 17 years old????

I hope it's for business use and makes you a crap ton of money every day.

-- Dave

 

You haven't looked at used truck prices lately, have you? If the truck is clean with no rust, that's actually a good price for what the market is right now. I was looking to get a 05-10 Scab 8ft bed and they're getting $15K+ with that kind of mileage, generally more like $20K. It's ridiculous right now.

 

What "20amp box" and fuses blew? There's many electronic controls involved in the transmissions operation that communicate with other random sensors, everything's interconnected, even something like a suspension system fuse could effect it.

You need to run the codes and see what comes up.