Q: Won't shift out of 2nd gear.

asked by on December 22, 2016

Ok so I've had to replace a couple trannys in the last few months I finnaly broke down and paid to have one rebuilt I also had to replace the wiring harness because the other was burnt. When I put it all back together now the speed OD won't work and won't shift outta 2nd gear so I replaced the speed sensors thinking that may be it but it didn't do anything.

My car has 179000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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