We recently purchased a 1991 Minnie Winnie (Winnebago) which rests on a 1990 Ford E350 chassis. It only has 58k miles. While driving on the freeway or highway, the Overdrive starts to go in and out; downshifting and upshifting willy nilly. It has a manual button for turning off the Overdrive and whe…

"And Ellis, The transmission was burned up and needed to be replaced. How can that NOT be a given. A vehicle will not operate with a burned up transmission" Who said it was “burned up” some trigger happy transmission shop? And just what does “burned up” mean. The OP said it did fine with overdri…

Ahh, this thread got a little too slow for Ellis so he thought he would liven it up again. Bye Earl, have a merry Christmas. transman

Ok, everybody are you sitting down?!!! Salinas Ford Truck Center found and fixed the problem!! Yahoo! OK, so I know you are all anxiously awaiting the answer! It turns out it was NOT the Transmission! It was a wire that got lodged underneath the air filter and wore the insulation off the wire. T…

Awesome. Glad they found the problem. transman

EllyEllisDecember 2011Edit Report TRansman, here is a post of your’s from December. "And Ellis, The transmission was burned up and needed to be replaced. How can that NOT be a given. A vehicle will not operate with a burned up transmission" Then I said Who said it was “burned up” some trigger …

Goes In and Out of Overdrive and burns up the Transmission!.. This is the title of this thread. On this board as with any other board I have ever been on, all we have to go on is the information given to us by the OP. Marworth has yet to give us any information to the contrary that the first tran…

An automatic transmission hunting between gears can and will overheat and burn up. This was a known issue with the 80’s GM S-10/15 with the 2.8L V6. The engine was so underpowered that it was constantly causing the tranny to shift gears. When GM replaced the engine with the 4.3…transmission failure…

Yeah, I know, that’s why I limit the up and down shifting as much as I can. Transman, you still refuse to believe what the OP said., " the transmission worked fine with the overdrive Off" If it were burned up, it would not work fine, would it??? It worked just like the next two!

MarworthJanuary 11Report Ok, everybody are you sitting down?!!! Salinas Ford Truck Center found and fixed the problem!! Yahoo! OK, so I know you are all anxiously awaiting the answer! It turns out it was NOT the Transmission

“Transman, you still refuse to believe what the OP said., " the transmission worked fine with the overdrive Off” If it were burned up, it would not work fine, would it??? It worked just like the next two! " Once again Earl… Goes In and Out of Overdrive and burns up the Transmission! This is the t…

Goes In and Out of Overdrive and burns up the Transmission!

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Goes In and Out of Overdrive and burns up the Transmission!

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