Ford Transmission :: 4r70 - Long Delay Going Into Drive / Skipping Second
Oct 8, 2013
I have a 97 F150 4.6 4x4. Many, many miles on this truck. Issues I am having are as follows.
1) Long delay going into drive. From reverse or neutral it takes an abnormally long time to engage drive. When it does finally engage it does so softly, not abruptly like my 4r100 expedition or my 4r70 going into reverse. Have not noticed any slipping under hard or light acceleration though.
2) The trans seem to skip second under light-medium acceleration. It will shift to second and immediately shift to third, or just skip second all together. I can always force it into 2nd with the lever and doesn't slip, but does seem to take a while to engage.
3) Possibly shift flare. mostly between 1-2 and 3-o/d.
None of these issues happen 100% of the time, but regularly enough for me to notice. Fluid is at proper level. I have all four gears and reverse.
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Still having issues with the transmission on my 05 F350. I posted before that it would take a few seconds to go into drive or reverse. The fixes were to change filters and do hot flush. I had the dealer do a hot flush, and then I put about 1000 miles on it. That didn't seem to fix anything, so I went back in and asked for more info. They did not change the filters. I thought they did, but found out they did not after the fact, so I decided to change the filters myself.
The interior filter was easy to change. The fluid was clean, and the magnet had shavings on it but nothing that seemed extraordinary. The exterior filter is impossible to get off. I reviewed posts on here before trying, so first was the impact wrench, then the pipe wrench, then the pipe wrench with a block wedged in to keep the thing from bending, still no luck. The cast nut broke off well before the pipe wrench came out of the drawer. How to get that thing off. I read on here somewhere that no fluid goes through that until 180 degrees, is that correct?
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If I put the selector in 2, it will do the same thing, eventually shifting into that second gear.
Gear selector on one, well, it obviously stays in 1st.
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Ive taken it to about 6 different places. Half say new tranny off the bat. Other half says clean fluid for that long after the problem started means its def. an electrical problem, and that makes the most sense to me. What it could be?
I'm thinking:
-Tranny Range Positioning Sensor
-Input/Output speed sensor
-TCM reprogramming/replace
- I'll even go with reflashing the PCM.
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