Going insane over transmission
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Going insane over transmission
About a year ago I purchased a 96 Bronco with an e4od transmission. From the beginning the gear selector was a little loose and the detents were off by about a half of a letter, but wasn't a big deal. However, a few weeks ago the selector got even looser, so i decided to fix it. I noticed that there were some bolts loose under the dash where the cable was connected to. I tighted them up and the detents were perfect. However, now the drive detent doesn't work, the transmission just slips. 2 and 1 work fine. I recently loosened the bolts back up and drive works again, however the detents are loose and I am back to the original problem. What is going on?
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I have an 86 with an AOD but I've messed around with my shifter a little bit. And I don't know if there is a huge difference between the years. On mine, there is a small white "cable" that is somehow connected to the indicator and the shift lever.It is somewhat adjustable so that it can "center" on which position the shifter is in. It sounds like you tightened some bolts that actually move the shift actuator rod instead of the cable. The cable is wrapped around the steering column and I have to remove my lower plastic cover to be able to work with it. I don't know if this helps but maybe. Sometimes I just have to get into the mind frame of a Ford engineer and turn logic off and just throw things together that work on a production line as opposed to fixing something.
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I had the very same problem with my 92 and then I had a diff problem which lead me to believe that the PSOM (gauge cluster) was acting up but later found out it was the excitor ring inside the diff. Needless to say, I went out to a junkyard bought and installed another PSOM and swapped. This was a year ago and from what I recall it was adjustable, in other words tighten the screws and find the adjusting nut on the white cable to move the needle to the correct letter that corresponds to the transmission setting. good luck.
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Brought the truck into the shop the other day and it turns out that the rooster comb inside the transmission was bent. When my shop teacher replaced the shift cable linkage he overtightened the bolt which bent the crow. One hundred and forty dollars for a shop teachers mistake.[img]images/icons/icon6.gif[/img]
