The symptoms were that when the car was cold, shifting was normal. After the car was warmed up and driven for awhile, when shifting into 2nd I got a grinding sound. If you shift in slowly it might be ok, but if you shift in to 2nd at a normal or rapid rate you will get the grinding. The work took about 4 days by the time they pulled the tranni, diagnosed the problems.
I had them put in the new tranni fluid elixer recommended by Ford, but either the new cocktail sucks or I have to give these new parts more time to work in because I have not been to impressed by the cold weather shifting in 1st and 2nd since the work was done. A while back someone else in the group noted he changed to the new cocktail and was not to impressed with cold shifting either. I'm hoping the problem will not persist.
Rob
