1998 Ford Taurus Transmission Problem

Here is a 1998 Ford Taurus. The transmission is acting up as you can see as it will not shift into any gear at all. This happens most of the time, but other times it drives just fine for a while. Any help to what's wrong would be greatly appreciated.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 1998
• Taurus
• Ford
• problem
• tranny
• transmission
• gear
• shift

[ady7d77]

what u want to do is make a engine test with the 45ltsi diagnosis system and it will tell you the spectrum of the speed alteration of transistors, u will know wich is the problem accurrately

[vr548218]

To all of you who keep saying the tranny needs replaced.....WRONG!!!!!!! When your tranny starts to go you begin to have slow shift, delays in speed pickup, hic-uping between speed. These are the signs of needing a replacement. This car needs the VSS replaced. Or the transmission speed sensor replaced. NOT THE TRANNY!!!! It's cheaper to replace a sensor then a transmission.

[xxEVIL87DUDE152]

A lot of issues with this is mostly that your torque converter went out or even the transmission pump could be bad. Just when you get it fixed make sure you pay more attention with maintaning your tranny fluids.

[Crazcompart]

Possibly a 4S tranny..."S" stands for Synchronous, meaning with respect to engine RPMs, the unit shifts in an order (1-2, 2-3, 3-4 and likewise in reverse), and often put unnecessary wear on the gears, resulting in tranny failure...

4N - "N" stands for Non-Synchronous, meaning with respect to RPMs, this unit shifts to the best gear option available without following the standard order, resulting in less wear...

[pimprock23]

did you fix it yet? what was what problem?

[48464]

May have an issue with your "Shift Lever" that shifts your transmission. Located on top of your tranny.

[LT1HILLINGHOE]

@dpgmuchogordo Good job.

[dpgmuchogordo]

@LT1HILLINGHOE Done! :)

[LT1HILLINGHOE]

@dpgmuchogordo Ouch....if you get a rebuild or a replacement just remember to install a cheap in line secondary tranny cooler to work in conjunction with the factory tranny cooler. Non maintenance and heat are the enemy. Good luck.

[dpgmuchogordo]

@LT1HILLINGHOE  No truer words have been written about the AX4S equipped cars. I recently was given a Mercury Sable with the AX4S trany and everything was nice and smooth up until this past summer and I fired up the air conditioning and after a few weeks, after the car got up to operating temperature, I had no ability to move the car. I came to find out about those wonderful solenoids in the valve body of the transmission, heat and the tranny not being seviced every 30k miles.