Originally posted by Rogerm60:
Check operation of the secondaries. On a 95 they should both rotate 90 degrees when the engine is started.





This sounds EXACTLY like my secondaries problem. Look at the linkage, and see if it moves when you start the car/rev it. It should be open (linkage forward) when the engine is off, then close (shift back) when you start it, and open again past ~3200 rpm at WOT. I'm going to do some diagnosis on mine tomorrow, so maybe I'll be able to give you some help finding trouble spots. This isn't a widely known problem because all other MY Contours have electrical secondaries which fail differently, although much more frequently.


-Philip Maynard '95 Contour [71 STS | Track Whore] '97 Miata [71 ES | Boulevard Pimp] 2006 autocross results