Yes, it would happen to me with my old Contour. If I drove a long distance, the OD OFF light would flash (indicating overheating tranny) and once that came on it would do the bang shift all the time (would do a 2nd gear scratch with normal driving...). My somewhat cure was flushing the tranny 3 times, drove 900 miles to Texas and no overheating.
Overheating happened once in Texas, but I was hot rodding around on the highway. Didn't happen after that, including a 2400 mile trip from Texas to Iowa to Montana.
