Help Tranny Failure!!!!!!
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Help Tranny Failure!!!!!!
Hey, just wondering out there if anyone else has expirienced this problem.Here it goes I was driving my 93 Aerostar 4.0 AWD it currently has 287,000 miles on it i regularly service this vehicle at the specified service intervals and the vehicle was running great. I am at the light and the van is in overdrive and the light changes and i take my foot off the brake and step on the throttle and without any noise or hesitation the engine stars revving but I'm not moving. The tranny fluid has been flushed about 35,000 miles ago. I don't really conceed that the tranny completely failed because i can shift it in and out of gear and back into park and I can see that the linkage on the trans is moving like it should and I was hoping that someone out there has expirenced this problem and has found a solution!!!!
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Originally Posted by wscodco1
i take my foot off the brake and step on the throttle and without any noise or hesitation the engine stars revving but I'm not moving. The tranny fluid has been flushed about 35,000 miles ago. I don't really conceed that the tranny completely failed because i can shift it in and out of gear and back into park and I can see that the linkage on the trans is moving like it should and I was hoping that someone out there has expirenced this problem and has found a solution!!!!
My money says you had a tranny failure. With that many miles, you are due for something major.
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The linkage between the shifter and the transmission may be out of adjustment (ei. OD = neutral) Just a possibility. If you can find a transmission shop that does free estimates, that would be the way to go.
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Originally Posted by wscodco1
Hey, just wondering out there if anyone else has expirienced this problem.Here it goes I was driving my 93 Aerostar 4.0 AWD it currently has 287,000 miles on it i regularly service this vehicle at the specified service intervals and the vehicle was running great. I am at the light and the van is in overdrive and the light changes and i take my foot off the brake and step on the throttle and without any noise or hesitation the engine stars revving but I'm not moving. The tranny fluid has been flushed about 35,000 miles ago. I don't really conceed that the tranny completely failed because i can shift it in and out of gear and back into park and I can see that the linkage on the trans is moving like it should and I was hoping that someone out there has expirenced this problem and has found a solution!!!!
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Well I highly doubt that it is the torque converter I've owned several cars that had torque converter failure and usually along with the failure there is noises and grinding coming from the bell housing and in this case it is not making any noises and like i said it has fluid and it is good. what i'd like to know is that i dropped the tranny oil pan and I'm looking at what appears to be two solenoids up in there could one or both of these be suspect? I've expirienced several tranny failures and most of them involved some type of catastrofic failure and usually there is loud noises and what not, this just seemed to be unusually quiet
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Originally Posted by 99f350sd
Sure its not something as simple as a major leak cause when it got low enough you go nowhere. Maybe a cooler line rusted or something.
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Here is a relevant thread from an Aerostar with half your mileage.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...d.php?t=416084
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...d.php?t=416084
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any movement in 1st or 2nd gear position? any movement in reverse?
bottom half of page
http://autorepair.about.com/cs/troub...a072702a_3.htm
with the high mileage on that tranny, I would recommend a complete rebuild if you are planning on keeping the rig for several more years...replacing only one worn part places extra stress on other worn out parts causing additional failures...will not be a dependable driver until rebuilt.
bottom half of page
http://autorepair.about.com/cs/troub...a072702a_3.htm
with the high mileage on that tranny, I would recommend a complete rebuild if you are planning on keeping the rig for several more years...replacing only one worn part places extra stress on other worn out parts causing additional failures...will not be a dependable driver until rebuilt.
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Originally Posted by wscodco1
I can shift the tranny through all the gears but i get no movement, period.