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Hello,
I have a 98 ranger 3.0L automatic 4x4. The truck has 186K on it. It sat for about a year then I bought it an put a motor in it. I did change the tranny filter too at that time.
I have been driving it for about a month now and it just developed a new problem. It has always shifted very smoothly up and down with no slipping or harsh shifting etc. On the highway the other day at about 70 mph I felt a quick bang, then another a minute later. Then it ran the rest of the 30 minute ride home with no problems. I thought maybe I just hit a sharp bump in the road. I ran around town the next day with no problems at all. Took it down the highway the next day and it ran fine on the way up ( 45 minute ride ), on the way home it started banging again and I noticed the tach was going crazy. The tranny was down shifting, taching up to 4500 rpm's, then quickly upshifting thru the gears and then banging and downshifting again very erratically. As I depressed and then pressed the gas pedal again, it felt like it was in gear and not slipping into nuetral, just in a very low gear. I could feel it shift thru 2nd, third etc, and see the tach go down, then hold, then go down again when it shifted again. I got off the highway and drove home on the side roads and almost home it started shifting erratically at lower mph. Does this sound like the PCM? Or is the tranny dying? The CEL came on when it first started and tached way out. I cannot read it so I do know what for. I will have somebody do that.
The only other symptom I have seen is that I feel a bump, sometimes two, when I start off from a stop, then it bumps again when I come to a stop. reading about that on this site leads me to believe that is a common problem with these trucks and may be the driveshaft slip yoke needs grease. I plan on doing this.
Any help you could advise you could give me would be appreciated.
Thanks, Jeff
I have a 98 ranger 3.0L automatic 4x4. The truck has 186K on it. It sat for about a year then I bought it an put a motor in it. I did change the tranny filter too at that time.
I have been driving it for about a month now and it just developed a new problem. It has always shifted very smoothly up and down with no slipping or harsh shifting etc. On the highway the other day at about 70 mph I felt a quick bang, then another a minute later. Then it ran the rest of the 30 minute ride home with no problems. I thought maybe I just hit a sharp bump in the road. I ran around town the next day with no problems at all. Took it down the highway the next day and it ran fine on the way up ( 45 minute ride ), on the way home it started banging again and I noticed the tach was going crazy. The tranny was down shifting, taching up to 4500 rpm's, then quickly upshifting thru the gears and then banging and downshifting again very erratically. As I depressed and then pressed the gas pedal again, it felt like it was in gear and not slipping into nuetral, just in a very low gear. I could feel it shift thru 2nd, third etc, and see the tach go down, then hold, then go down again when it shifted again. I got off the highway and drove home on the side roads and almost home it started shifting erratically at lower mph. Does this sound like the PCM? Or is the tranny dying? The CEL came on when it first started and tached way out. I cannot read it so I do know what for. I will have somebody do that.
The only other symptom I have seen is that I feel a bump, sometimes two, when I start off from a stop, then it bumps again when I come to a stop. reading about that on this site leads me to believe that is a common problem with these trucks and may be the driveshaft slip yoke needs grease. I plan on doing this.
Any help you could advise you could give me would be appreciated.
Thanks, Jeff
