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1990 f150 Surge start up. Gear slip

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Old 11-26-2016, 08:55 PM
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1990 f150 Surge start up. Gear slip

Hey everyone.
I am trying to trouble shoot 2 problems. Maybe related and may not. First is when I start the truck it will jump to 2000 rpm or over, Then drop, recently is has dropped so low it stalls. I can get past this if I start it and quickly put it into gear. The second is when I come to a complete stop. It will occasionally slip out of gear. I can't find a rhyme or reason to it. It seems to be random. If I rev then engine it will jump back in gear. But it is making the truck very unreliable when I need to stop and go.
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1990 f150 Lariat 5.0
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Old 11-29-2016, 04:56 PM
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Hmmm.. 1990. Haven't played with one of those recently but - have you got a vacuum line running to that transmission ?
 
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Old 11-29-2016, 05:52 PM
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Which transmission - C6, AOD, or E4OD?
 
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Old 11-30-2016, 12:20 AM
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try extracting fault codes from computer to see if you have bad throttle position sensor or something related
 


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