Weird shifting problem?

[LS2000]

Hello all, for the past two days I’ve been having a weird shift issue. I am a pretty aggressive driver and the computer should’ve have learned my driving habits by now. Anyway, I normally use the highway to go to work every morning and I normally cruise around 60MPH (2k-2.2kRPM). When I press the gas, the RPM goes up a bit then drops to around 1.4-1.5K and the speed dosent increase. It feels as if I’m not getting any response from the throttle at all unless I floor it. Any ideas?

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[Bill]

Are you ashamed to tell us the year, make, and model?

[LS2000]

After putting so much money into it, I really am 😆 It’s a ’00 Lincoln LS v6 Base.

[college man]

Have you gotten a check engine light?

[Bill]

First thing to do is to remove the Mass Airflow Sensor and clean it with some brake cleaner.

Eric has a video that shows how to do this.

[Vic Sorlie]

[quote=”LS2000″ post=68779]Hello all, for the past two days I’ve been having a weird shift issue. I am a pretty aggressive driver and the computer should’ve have learned my driving habits by now. Anyway, I normally use the highway to go to work every morning and I normally cruise around 60MPH (2k-2.2kRPM). When I press the gas, the RPM goes up a bit then drops to around 1.4-1.5K and the speed dosent increase. It feels as if I’m not getting any response from the throttle at all unless I floor it. Any ideas?[/quote]

How many miles on this car, and have you kept up with maintenance, especially transmission fluid/filter servicing? I’d start with the inexpensive basics: fuel filter, air filter, clean MAF sensor and throttle body. See if there’s any improvement. If not, then it’s on to more comprehensive stuff like transmission service and spark plugs.

[LS2000]

Ill try the fuel filter and maf cleaning. I hear ford has a special kind of coating on their intakes and ill need a special cleanser. Is that true? The car has a totally rebuilt tranny as of October 2012. the car has 132,103miles. Bought it with 99k in may of last year.

[Bill]

Some Fords had a coating on the throttle body bore and throttle plate so that deposits wouldn’t stick but that was on the older Fords. There was a sticker installed on the throttle body that cautioned against cleaning. By 2000 they decided that it didn’t help or was worse so they stopped using it.

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