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This may be long, but I'm in great need of direction. Thanks in advance.
As some of you know I am in the finishing stages of my Dana44 / Ford 9" swap in my 2000 Ranger. I'm having a few issues now that I'm using 30 year old axles on an 8 year old truck.
On her first road voyage, the check engine light came on. No biggie. I've got an OBDII reader. Today I checked the codes, and nothin. Nothin at all. So I unplugged the battery for a few hours and went back, fastened the ground, and no more check engine light. Cool.
Now the tranny is giving me issues. First thing I noticed is that the taco worked and the speedo didn't. Not a big issue. I can go aftermarket or something.
The tranny is a 4R44E Auto. Now in the past, the OD OFF light would start flashing on the dash, and it would quit down shifting. It wouldn't down shift if I pushed the pedal to the floor, or when I came to a stop at a light etc. It seemed to have stayed in the 2nd and 3rd gears. What ever it was in when the OD OFF light started flashing.
This happened on occasion, at very random times. No connection to fluid levels (full and perdy) temperature, or how much I was rhomping on the truck. Shifting into neutral, and turning the engine off, and then starting the truck again would do the trick.
Now if the tranny auto shifts into second gear, no matter what, the same symptoms come back. It stays in second or third, with that damn blinking OD OFF light.
The rear ABS sensor is pulled. The actual VSS is in the tranny, or so I've heard. Correct me if I'm wrong. The ABS sensor is zip tied up to the side because the 9" doesn't have a tone ring. I put a few hundred miles on the 9" rear before I started the front axle swap. No issues, but the ABS light was on. Understandable. I've heard I can get away with leaving the actual sensor plugged in, but not actually into the diff housing.
Now in the front, near the body mounts, there is a set of wires on each side. I never got a good look at what they ran to, nor can I really tell where they come from. Now they're just wrapped up and tied out of the way.
So here are my questions:
Is the 4r44e electric shift or vaccume shift?
If there's a vaccum leak, that would jack up the down shifting, correct?
What do those two front wire sets go to? My assumption it was for the auto hubs, but my hope is they're not ABS/VSS/Tranny related.
Thanks for reading, (if you got this far) and thanks in advance for any help.
Adam
As some of you know I am in the finishing stages of my Dana44 / Ford 9" swap in my 2000 Ranger. I'm having a few issues now that I'm using 30 year old axles on an 8 year old truck.
On her first road voyage, the check engine light came on. No biggie. I've got an OBDII reader. Today I checked the codes, and nothin. Nothin at all. So I unplugged the battery for a few hours and went back, fastened the ground, and no more check engine light. Cool.
Now the tranny is giving me issues. First thing I noticed is that the taco worked and the speedo didn't. Not a big issue. I can go aftermarket or something.
The tranny is a 4R44E Auto. Now in the past, the OD OFF light would start flashing on the dash, and it would quit down shifting. It wouldn't down shift if I pushed the pedal to the floor, or when I came to a stop at a light etc. It seemed to have stayed in the 2nd and 3rd gears. What ever it was in when the OD OFF light started flashing.
This happened on occasion, at very random times. No connection to fluid levels (full and perdy) temperature, or how much I was rhomping on the truck. Shifting into neutral, and turning the engine off, and then starting the truck again would do the trick.
Now if the tranny auto shifts into second gear, no matter what, the same symptoms come back. It stays in second or third, with that damn blinking OD OFF light.
The rear ABS sensor is pulled. The actual VSS is in the tranny, or so I've heard. Correct me if I'm wrong. The ABS sensor is zip tied up to the side because the 9" doesn't have a tone ring. I put a few hundred miles on the 9" rear before I started the front axle swap. No issues, but the ABS light was on. Understandable. I've heard I can get away with leaving the actual sensor plugged in, but not actually into the diff housing.
Now in the front, near the body mounts, there is a set of wires on each side. I never got a good look at what they ran to, nor can I really tell where they come from. Now they're just wrapped up and tied out of the way.
So here are my questions:
Is the 4r44e electric shift or vaccume shift?
If there's a vaccum leak, that would jack up the down shifting, correct?
What do those two front wire sets go to? My assumption it was for the auto hubs, but my hope is they're not ABS/VSS/Tranny related.
Thanks for reading, (if you got this far) and thanks in advance for any help.
Adam