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Ok, here is my dilemma.
This vehicle is my fiance's car, and formerly my grandmother's car. The transmission has had no prior issues, whatsoever. It's been a great car.
We replaced the transmission range sensor (autozone referred to it as a Neutral Safety Sensor, but Haynes referrs to it as TRS). It was so rusted on, that we had to dremmel it off carefully. After putting the part back on, and ensuring the neutral line matched up to the linkage and everything, we took it for a drive only to find out that now it doesn't shift through the gears in drive (2nd, 3rd, 4th, overdrive, nothing). Letting off the gas does nothing. It feels like it isn't in gear all the way, despite our supposed "proper" alignment.
The sensor was replaced because of the infamous symptoms: Power steering assist intermittently engaging and disengaging, seatbelt light coming on, windows not rolling up or down, radio cutting out and staying out most of the time. All of these only happened when the transmission was in "Drive" or "Reverse". In "Park" or "Neutral" the car behaved normally. This was a classic case according to this forum.
So we fixed all of those problems with the replacement sensor, now the transmission wont shift out of 1st while in drive, drive with overdrive, etc. It almost feels like it wants to at about 2500-3000 RPMS but something isn't right? Sometimes it doesn't feel like it wants to shift at all. It never does.
What could cause this problem? We do have a check engine light on.
Again, the transmission was perfect until we replaced this sensor, it is hard to believe that it decided to crap out coincidentally directly upon replacement.
What is our problem?
Bits of info:
We forgot to remove the negative terminal on the battery before working on it. Could this confuse the computer?
Mechanics say the shift problem has nothing to do with the TRS/Neutral Safety Switch, but google and ford forums say otherwise. Must be a ford thing?
This vehicle is my fiance's car, and formerly my grandmother's car. The transmission has had no prior issues, whatsoever. It's been a great car.
We replaced the transmission range sensor (autozone referred to it as a Neutral Safety Sensor, but Haynes referrs to it as TRS). It was so rusted on, that we had to dremmel it off carefully. After putting the part back on, and ensuring the neutral line matched up to the linkage and everything, we took it for a drive only to find out that now it doesn't shift through the gears in drive (2nd, 3rd, 4th, overdrive, nothing). Letting off the gas does nothing. It feels like it isn't in gear all the way, despite our supposed "proper" alignment.
The sensor was replaced because of the infamous symptoms: Power steering assist intermittently engaging and disengaging, seatbelt light coming on, windows not rolling up or down, radio cutting out and staying out most of the time. All of these only happened when the transmission was in "Drive" or "Reverse". In "Park" or "Neutral" the car behaved normally. This was a classic case according to this forum.
So we fixed all of those problems with the replacement sensor, now the transmission wont shift out of 1st while in drive, drive with overdrive, etc. It almost feels like it wants to at about 2500-3000 RPMS but something isn't right? Sometimes it doesn't feel like it wants to shift at all. It never does.
What could cause this problem? We do have a check engine light on.
Again, the transmission was perfect until we replaced this sensor, it is hard to believe that it decided to crap out coincidentally directly upon replacement.
What is our problem?
Bits of info:
We forgot to remove the negative terminal on the battery before working on it. Could this confuse the computer?
Mechanics say the shift problem has nothing to do with the TRS/Neutral Safety Switch, but google and ford forums say otherwise. Must be a ford thing?
