Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Transaxle 1-2 "Bang" shift is GONE!!!

when you are talking the bolt off which way do you spin it? towards the front or the back? \


Never mind

OK...just did this job yesterday and it tried to [censored] me in the ass. The sensor would NOT come out. I ended up breaking it in the attempt...and then breaking it....and breaking it....and breaking it...until all that was left was mostly either flush with the trans case or slightly recessed. I tried drilling it out...no dice, the metal's too hard. So I drilled around it in several places in an attempt to loosen it. Nope. Inserted some deck screws into the hole to try and pull it out by them. Nope. It would spin but not come out. But it would push in! I was afraid of pushing it too far and never getting it out. Needle-nose pliers wouldn't grip it. Finally I got them inserted as far as they'd go, clamped vice grips onto the needle-noses, and FINALLY it came out. So a 20-minute job turned into 2 hours. But it appears to have worked.

is this to fix my problem i got too?

my car accels in first, and when going into 2nd its like "vrooooooomm BLAM vrooooooom" it's weird to explain but it does feel like its slamming itself into 2nd

Sounds about right

retry, lol when its acceling from a stop and going into second is slams into 2nd, but 3rd and 4th is fine.

Yes. That is one of the things that this new sensor helps with. One of the things that makes this symptom much more pronounced is if you let off the gas just before the shift into second. Some have stated though, that this new sensor has helped with this.

So this is why my shift from 1st - 2nd is so soft...

With my DiabloSport chip I would get a fast shift.
After the tranny was replaced, I now get a soft shift
from 1st - 2nd, and a chirp from 2nd - 3rd.

I did the TSS swap last week & it cured all sorts of irritating behavior in my tranny. I had the bang shift & the rest of the driving range felt a little "loose" - just generally sloppy. Took me a whopping 3 minutes & I didn't have to remove the front wheel, just cut em hard left & parked it.

Now I get smooth shifts, the rest of the driving range is much tighter & more refined. I had originally installed a superchip to try to fix some of these problems & its effect was minimal, though it did change my shift points to a much better range. (sorry, ramblin')

I copied the part number that was stated in the "How To" and used it to search on FordPartsOnline.com and this is the result was

List Price
$18.69
Electrical - Powertrain control - Vehicle speed sensor
VEHICLE SPEED SENSOR, Escape, Trans 2001 - 2003

It says Escape and $18.69, in the "How To" it says it is $15 from that same site. So I was wondering, is that the correct replacement part for our cars?