# 1997 Ford Pickup trans wouldn’t go into overdrive

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/1997-ford-pickup-trans-wouldn-t-go-into-overdrive/126012>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** pickup, ford\
**Created:** [October 1, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1997-ford-pickup-trans-wouldn-t-go-into-overdrive/126012 "2018-10-01T16:40:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![JanieDaniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JanieDaniel](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JanieDaniel)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1997-ford-pickup-trans-wouldn-t-go-into-overdrive/126012/1 "2018-10-01T16:40:33Z")

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Transmission wouldn’t Go into Overdrive to pull the Siskiyou Summit. made it to exit @7 in Medford sounded like a ran over a long cattle gtate. Sounded terrible.

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**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1997-ford-pickup-trans-wouldn-t-go-into-overdrive/126012/2 "2018-10-01T16:46:31Z")

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A) I would suspect you should not have been in OD approaching the summit.  
B) Sounds like you now need to take it to a good independent transmission shop.