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Old 07-28-2005   #1 (permalink)
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I have a 94 GT vert with a AOD. The car has 170K on it and runs good. I had the transmission rebuilt about 10K ago.

Before I had it rebuilt, it slipped and also occasionally hopped out of overdrive and into a lower gear at anywhre between 40 and 80 mph.

Since I had the tranny rebuilt, it still jumps out of overdrive and has some 'shifting confusion'...as my wife calls it.

Do any of you know of any electronic transmission shifting fixes I might be able to try before sending it to a tranny shop and dropping a crap-load of $$$ for a minor fix?

Problem is, the guy who rebuilt it is 3 states away...I'm kinda in green territory

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I'm having the same problem. I have a 95 GT AODE. Mine just started acting like crap all of a sudden. It sticks in 1st gear till about 2300 RPMs and slams real hard directly into 3rd gear. Then it acts like its slipping and downshifts and up shifts sporadically. THEN.......it will neutralize in drive going about 35mph and I can rev it up to about 4000rpms and then it will grab. My fluid is fine. Whats the deal?? It has to be computer related.
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My suggestion would be that you dont drop any more money into fixing it. If your going to keep the car buying an after market transmission would be money better spent than trying to keep an old one alive.

You dont have to spend a ton of money on a race unit, there are some that are affordable and are meant to be replacements of the stock units but with upgraded parts.
Think of this way, eventually if you keep spending money on rebuilding the old one, you could just saved most of that money to buy I new stronger one.

And whatever route you choose to take, do yourself a favor and get a tranny cooler. Heat is one of the major factors that contributes to transmission failure.

The trannys in our cars are fairly weak and dont take well to abuse. My original one lost overdrive at about 55,000 miles. (exhibiting the same behaviors your mentioning.) I had it rebuilt by Ford and at about 80,000 it started doing the same things again. It was slipping out of over drive and hunting for gears at certain speeds. At that point I gave up on the Ford units and went with a Lentech. Its really meant for the strip (this particualr model.) but it works fine on the street. Its rated to take about 700-800hp. I bought it to take the abuse even though I have no plans to make that type of power. But this way I have plenty of room for added hp and I know it will take any abuse I may throw it it.

Here are some links you can check out.

www.lentechautomatics.com The street cruiser 4R70W from Lentech is your basic replacement for a stock unit. But with better internals.

www.levelten.com
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I was told that these problems could be associated with a bad speed sensor in the tranny. It also could be that the sprag gear is blown. Try not to shift the car yourself (high in RPMs) because it is hard on the sprag.
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OR it could be the stock parts and calibration are/is CRAP, CRAP, CRAP for performance.

http://tccoa.com/articles/tranny/tra...on/index.shtml

Follow STONECOLD's suggestion.
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the best thing i did to my tranny after the rebuild and upgrades was a becontrols.com tranny stand alone computer ...you can set it up how ever you like and you dont have the stock crapy stratigys tell the tranny what to do
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Thanks for the advice guys. I appreciate it. I'll look into the baumann system, etc.

My old pony is a daily back and forth to work car...about 15 miles each way and the occasional top down cruise along the beach. It's definitely not a performer(that is my 02 blown HD f150). We just enjoy the old vert. The only problem is the tranny hopping in and out of overdrive while driving along for no good reason. That takes a lot of the pleasure out of summer evening top-down cruises and pisses me off while driving to/from work.

I'm not planning on pouring tons of $$ into it, but I do intend to keep driving it for the next few years. Its just not worth it to unload it for a newer convertible for our purposes. It's in good shape otherwise and I've kept it very clean.

I like the advice you can get on this site for things to look for before blindly going to a tranny shop and being ripped off. I'm pretty 'with it' when it comes to engine maintenance....but I'm a doofus on the shifting mechanism.
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Anyone know anything about the TR/MLP sensor on the tranny?

I've been doing a bit of research on my prob and this seems to be the 1st thing I want to check. Supposedly, a bad TR/MLP sensor on the 94/95 AODE's is one of the things that can cause 3 to 4 shifting probs. Otherwise I am smooth.
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take the sensors out and clean them, if ur tranny is really goin bad they will be covered in metal shavings. if not then the sensors are your problem. but its sounds like the clutches are slipping inside.
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