Cant get over 35mph
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Cant get over 35mph
I hva a 2000 F150 4.6l that was purchased as a wreck with front end damage only. Few months after Hurricane Wilma my front brakes were locking and I had them changed. Then ABS started locking and I bleed the brakes and it seem to slove that. Now cant get over 35 mph with over drive on . Cant get over 40 mph with it off. A tehnician was able to cancel the ABS warning light and he suggest that I need a transmission kit . His labor cost are $700 not including the kit. I have checked all the connectors and they dont seem to have any evidence of corrosion. Today I changed the transmission filter and found nothing strange in the pan except small amount of metal attached to the magnet and the oil was dark in color. This made little difference. Now able to get up to 45mph. Any suggestions would be helpful .
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is the transmission not shifting? By that I mean is the engine revving and you can't wind it up amymore? Starting out, you should be able to at least get two good shifts out of that tranny, probably three. Start out from a stop, and count the shifts. If it's not shifting out of second, which is my guess here, then the technition is right and you need a new tranny. Sorry to bring you the bad news.
If the transmission is shifting then I'm completely wrong and we'll go from there.
If the transmission is shifting then I'm completely wrong and we'll go from there.
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Thanks for the quick response folks. Yes the engine is reviving up and the truck won't go any faster. If I put it in cruise control it really revs up but no action. The technician had it for a day. Would the problem show up onthe computer any though there are no alarms up?
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bad tranny...shift it like if it were a manual tranny...start from 1 then 2...etc untill you get to overdrive...it may work, you got nothing to loose but some time and a little gas...
It worked on my fathers van that had been sitting parked for a while...
It worked on my fathers van that had been sitting parked for a while...
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One of your solenoids may have gone out also. The tech should know that. Is it like it is stuck in gear and won't shift so it just revs until you hit redline? So if you are in 1st gear 35 is as fast as it can go without shifting. These trannies are electronically controlled and the solenoids do the shifting.
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I like the idea about the soleniod . But this manual (Hayes ot a Chilton on the way)I have does not go into much about transmission. So how can I check the solenoid? Can I flush the transmission my self. The tune up shop's machine is not working and they have no idea when it will be back (welcome to island life).
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thanks again.
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the flushing you'll have to have done. I don't know of a way to get it done for you. If you can find out what kind of transmission it is you might be able to get a new one from ebay or the like for pretty cheap. Shipping to an island may be expensive though, don't know much about that. In the meantime, I would check all the electrical connections to the transmission to make dure that they haven't rusted or anything like that. If your computer isn't telling your transmission to shift, then it won't. Did Hurricane Wilma flood the truck?