Ford transmissions used to (and may still?) have a trick to them. I was taught by a Ford tech (old friend) how to keep the car in any gear for as long as I wanted. I learned this when I was young and owned a ’91 Mustang GT (yea it was an automatic, I was driving a lot in the city) , it also worked on Ford rental cars around the 96/97 year. I am not sure if the trucks will do this and I haven’t tried it on my ’01, but here it is, and it worked very nice on the Mustang considering it was auto…. I would do all of this while having it floored …I would floor it with the gearshift indicating 1st gear, have the RPM’s run high (this was first gear for as long as I wanted, naturally), then I would push it into 2nd just for a half second and throw it back down to the 1st gear position and the trans would go into second gear for as long as I wanted (this was second gear even though indicator is saying 1st) I would hold that until higher RPM’s and click it into 2nd gear position which would give, and hold, third gear for as long as I wanted (indicator is showing 2nd) For fourth gear I would push it up to Drive (D) and there is my fourth gear. The trick to learning this was getting the car from first into second, you had to learn just how long to put in into second and bring it back down into first in order to get the trans into second gear. All that being said, I have not tried it on my truck (yet), it was a trick that worked in the past and anyone driving older models cars it will work. I don’t recommend anyone trying this on their truck. Is there anyone else out there that has done this trick before? PS, I beat on the GT for 4 years doing this and never had one ounce of problems with the car.

 

just install a stall converter and shift kit in the transmisson before ya blow smothing up.. you admited ya beating up the car..my trick was to rev up car in n, drop into 1st, hold to floor shift into 2nd than drive in a 1973 429 Ltd C6 9in..trick I saw in the movie the driver, Ryan Oniel...hard on the ujoints...

 

I said that I beat ON the car, not beat up the car. That car took a lot of abuse and was a warrior. I thought I was going to drop the tranny on the ground the very first time I tried it, but after I became comfortable with it, it was very fun. One thing I would never do is a neutral drop, but it seemed to have worked for you....lucky you I guess?

 

we all were young once...and I'm not being critical..on the newer trans that are coumputer controled, I don't know if your trick is going to fool the coumputer on a F-150 trans, basicly your keeping up the revs and holding the transmison shift paterns back...I suspect this would add stress to the torque converter, a stall converter and shift kit would allow you do this...but hey, you drove your mustang the way you wanted, and if it worked for ya, than great.

 

Just sounds like a good way to tear something up to me.

 

That trick was for the aod transmissions. We always called it the 1-d-1 shuffle.
Alan

 

Although it was a pos chevy. I tore up a powerglide doing that. With the Rpm's high during shift, it kept smoking the high clutch pack a little everytime I did it. Could probably have done it if the tranny had been set up for racing, but an average grocery getter isn't set up like that. In L1 I believe the clutch pack and a band are applied, where as in D starting in 1st it is just a clutch pack.