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- 1999
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First of all, this is on a Ranger 1999 3L v6.
Yesterday I was driving all day on pretty tame dirt roads a bit of 4x4ing nothing crazy, but all the sudden by the end of the day, when i put the truck in Drive, I would take up to 3 seconds to get into gear, then when I pressed the accelerator a horrible metallic screeching /grinding occured with lotsa shaking and the truck not really wanting to go forward. I tried switching through the gears and it seemed to be doing the same thing. I then proceed to put it in 4H, put it in D, same thing, test the other gears, not any better. Then I switched it to 4L, then no crazy sound and thuds or anything. So, I limped it home in 4L, not ideal but better than getting stranded.
Reverse gear worked in all gears without issues. Transmission fluid looked normal, levels seem all good as well.
Where should I start looking?
transmission? transfer case? Driveshaft?
I'm semi-fluent in fixing my own vehicles, but i never ran into transmission issues before, it would be great if someone can tell me where to start looking.
Thanks
PS: I gonna try to record the sound it makes, even though I'm pretty reluctant to , because it sounds horrible like something may be really f@cked
Yesterday I was driving all day on pretty tame dirt roads a bit of 4x4ing nothing crazy, but all the sudden by the end of the day, when i put the truck in Drive, I would take up to 3 seconds to get into gear, then when I pressed the accelerator a horrible metallic screeching /grinding occured with lotsa shaking and the truck not really wanting to go forward. I tried switching through the gears and it seemed to be doing the same thing. I then proceed to put it in 4H, put it in D, same thing, test the other gears, not any better. Then I switched it to 4L, then no crazy sound and thuds or anything. So, I limped it home in 4L, not ideal but better than getting stranded.
Reverse gear worked in all gears without issues. Transmission fluid looked normal, levels seem all good as well.
Where should I start looking?
transmission? transfer case? Driveshaft?
I'm semi-fluent in fixing my own vehicles, but i never ran into transmission issues before, it would be great if someone can tell me where to start looking.
Thanks
PS: I gonna try to record the sound it makes, even though I'm pretty reluctant to , because it sounds horrible like something may be really f@cked
