Rough running and no Shifiting @ same time.
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Rough running and no Shifiting @ same time.
I hope you guys can help me out with this issue. I came back to work yesterday after lunch and shut my truck down. It is an 82 Ranger with the 2.3 engine and 3 speed automatic transmission. Well after I shut it off it ran on (dieseled) for a goods 20 seconds. After I got off work, I started it up and it was running terrible missing at idle and running very rough so I started to limp home and found out the transmission was not shifting either. I could shift it manually first and second but drive remains in first gear. This truck has 64,000 and just had the timing belt done before I bought it. I have had it for almost a year with no issues. Does anyone have an idea of what would make a motor that seems out of time and a no shifting tranny? Control module? I will be checking cap and rotor and all that this weekend but the shifting issue has me stumped. Thanks for your time and sorry for the long wind.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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You may have 'backfired' your vacuum line to the modulator free of its normal position. If so, it would allow extra air, and mess up the idle. It would also make the modulator think [zero vacuum in the intake] you had the throttle wide open, pedal to the metal, and thus kick down would keep it in the lower gears until the governor made it shift.
Check under the hood for a loose vacuum line, and check at the rear of the transmission, passenger side, for a line that leads up to the engine. It could be disconnected at either end... Or it could be something else. I bet on a vacuum line.
tom
Check under the hood for a loose vacuum line, and check at the rear of the transmission, passenger side, for a line that leads up to the engine. It could be disconnected at either end... Or it could be something else. I bet on a vacuum line.
tom
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I hope you guys can help me out with this issue. I came back to work yesterday after lunch and shut my truck down. It is an 82 Ranger with the 2.3 engine and 3 speed automatic transmission. Well after I shut it off it ran on (dieseled) for a goods 20 seconds. After I got off work, I started it up and it was running terrible missing at idle and running very rough so I started to limp home and found out the transmission was not shifting either. I could shift it manually first and second but drive remains in first gear. This truck has 64,000 and just had the timing belt done before I bought it. I have had it for almost a year with no issues. Does anyone have an idea of what would make a motor that seems out of time and a no shifting tranny? Control module? I will be checking cap and rotor and all that this weekend but the shifting issue has me stumped. Thanks for your time and sorry for the long wind.fficeffice" /><o>></o>>
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You are correct but according to the VIN/Carfax she was born in 82 but I do tell them 83 at the parts shop lol. Tom thank you for the quick response, I will check that this weekend and let you know what is happening.
