1998 Explorer Problem Has Me Puzzled
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1998 Explorer Problem Has Me Puzzled
I've got a 1998 Ford Explorer with a auto. trans. / V6 SOHC engine. Bought it new, has a little over 146,000 miles on it now. While driving at regular or posted speeds when I come to a hill, incline, or even on a level road, I will slightly accelerate and the vehicle will slightly surge in and out or have a jerky feel. Once I let off the gas pedal it smooths out. It does not do this if I accelate rapidly like to pass a vehicle or going down hill. The following is some background information that I have performed on the Explorer recently since this problem started. Changed spark plugs and plug wires, cleaned throttle body & sprayed appoved cleaner around oxygen sensor, and changed transmission fluid and filter. Thought I had it fixed and then the problem startrd re-occuring. A friend who owns a shop informed me that there was not much he could do to adjust or tune the transmission. He recommended that I add some Lucas Transmission Fix and see what the results are. So I drained the transmission fluid and added the Lucas Product so as not to over fill. Transmission would act up with in a few miles then smooth out and run great. Now it is back to doing what I described above. Has any one out there experinced this same problem? I changed the transmission fluid and filter once before when it reached 50,000 miles. Thanks, Ronny
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OK, I have a 99 with similar factory options. I'm only at 76K, and have no mods on the truck. Mine is doing something quite similar, but not as repeatable as yours sounds...and not as frequently. The downside, mine seems worse. When I was driving home a while back, I felt a slight surging so I pulled off the interstate. At lower speeds it seemed to really jerk, not just surge. Eventually, I just pulled off the road, turned it off...started it back up, drove the last hour home fine. It happened again, and even caused it to stall out on my last road trip...but again, it started right back up and got me home fine. I decided that it was most likely an electrical problem after the second time (due to the way the gauges were clicking off at the same time that the truck jerked...but this was just a GUESS.) About a week or so later...battery was dead. I'm *hoping* the new battery fixed it, but who knows. It has only done this on the highway so far, all my around town driving is fine...so I'm curious as to any input people may have on problems that are like mine and the one rkmaxwel has mentioned.
