Originally posted by MAYBE aliasfriend:
Your trannie is overheating. I suggest you get a really good aftermarket trannie cooler and have it installed, though it already may be too late. People around here have experianced an overheating automatic a lot. Hector put a trannie cooler on his auto and after 140K miles it still shifts wounderfully (jeez hector, your contour is one hell of an example).
As for your 1-2 gear harsh shift, this also is a common issue. Its called a bang shift, you need the updated shift sensor (TSS) from ford... Costs about $20 and takes you 15 minutes to install...
If the tranny has been overheating for some time, better do the drain and refill now as the the fluid is probably on its way to brown. (and you don't know what type of fluid AAMCO might have put in).
Edit. Link
http://www.contour.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=tranny&Number=992476&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=7&fpart=1
Last edited by Tony2005; 08/12/05 06:02 PM.
