Hi
When driving I get strange gear changes as if the gearbox moves to neutral between changing, this results in a reving of the engine each change. After a while doing this I get the overdrive light flashing. As soon as the overdrive light starts flashing the problem goes, however, 1st gear never gets selected. If i'm driving around the city I have to use the 1st and 2nd gear manually selecting because its like pulling off from the lights in 2nd. The changing also becomes clunky but this is far better than the gearbox dropping to neutral each change which has caused a few frights whilst doing a kick down at 60mpg!
I have had this fault for around a year now, sometimes it goes for a while but comes back. At the moment I seem to have it perminantly but I have learnt to live with how to cope with it. I have read many articles about the overdrive light flashing and seen anything from disconnect battery, axle speed sensor, torque converter to complete rebuild of transmission. The UK Ford dealers have no idea of how to handle Explorers and don't really care either, they didn't even have any luck pulling codes
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advanc
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