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I headed to Florida from Charlotte last week and at about 74 miles I hit 10 MPH heavy traffic and my 1993 3.0L Ranger was running great till then. Traffic starts moving better and the trans shifted first to second and then second to third and the engine suddenly bogs down and struggles to not stall. Throw it into neutral a I pull into the break down lane. Put it in park and its idling just fine. I give it a few revs and all seems ok and I put it in OD and start down the breakdown lane, the trans shifts first to second and then second to third and the engine bogs down again. I shift down to D this time and the engine sputters once and then takes off fine. Five miles down the highway everything is still okay and I shift into OD and the Tach drops to around 1800 RPM. 5 more miles down the road and I start going up a hill. The truck down shifts and there is no power at all, its not sputtering but I can’t do 45MPH. Pull into the breakdown again and it stalls. Starts right up and idles fine. I skip trip to Florida and limp home on the back roads of South Carolina. It was a true limp home with it stalling at 40MPH a few times. I would slide it into Neutral and it would start right up, put it in gear and off it would go. Sputtering and a couple backfires for good measure I made it home. Here’s the weird part the check engine light only flashed one once for the whole event. Stopped at an Auto Zone and they sent me to an O’Rielly Auto Parts as they were supposedly the only company left that can or will read OBD-I codes but theirs was out of service. I’m told there is no transmission Neutral Switch to communicate with the PCM but there is surely something NOT happening between the two when there should be. Do you think I have a bad computer?
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