Ben Obo

I have a 2014 Transit Connect XLT LWB 2.5L4 and the shifter came off. I was lucky to be home in the carport! So I went to Ford and they wanted to effect the repair but couldn't schedule it for 2 weeks, so I asked for the parts that pertained to the recall repair, but they wanted me to buy them, so I forked over abour 4 bucks for the two pieces of plastic that had both disappeared without a trace. One was orange (the underside piece that clips onto the schifter knob, inserted from below with a pressure fit) and the other a white plastic cap which slides on from the end and clips on both sides of the cable head into rectanglar slots. Since I had already removed the air intake to the carburator, the air cleaner assembly and the coolant tubing support, I had enough room to press DG9Z7K340A in with my fingerstrength and then to slide DG9Z7S004A on as the cap.

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This is the answer every camper is looking for! https://fordtransitconnectforum.com/topic/6233-turn-off-exterior-lights/?_fromLogin=1#elControls_20013_menu "with the doors open turn the ignition on and off again"

?this is the answer every camper is looking for! Unlike the headlamp toggle it keeps the running lights from coming on again when another door is opened ... but it only lasts for a while.

I use the oil dipstick, just because it was handy. After I refilled the transmission and used the level port I put the oil dipstick in the filler tube until it met the first point of resistence (not sure what I was hitting) and made note of where the top of the dipstick was in relation to the surrounding environment. Then I looked at the oil level on the stick while the engine was hot and running on level ground. I also measured the oil level in the same way when it was off and cold to take some of the pain out of pulling the plug from behind the hot water hose. But that didn't fix the leak I tried using the filler tube when the engine was hot and running to add fluid while the engine was hot while observing the leveling port, but the funnel melted where it touched the heater hose I guess I should have overfilled while cold and drained the excess while hot and running. But now that I know where the level is by the dip stick I can add those 28 ounces every 1000 miles and be reassured of an accurate fill. If there had been a dip stick, I'm sure the thing wouldn't have been two quarts low when I bought it from the used car dealer.

Not having a dip stick disables the average consumer: She cant check the fluid level and she cant check the fluid color. My experience with my 2014 began at 82000 miles when I bought it for 13000. It needed new brake pads and it shifted rough between 1 and 2, and 4 and 5, but not always. It seemed to depend on how heavy my foot was .... Deleting the adaptive learning table associated with the transmission seemed to help. When I drained the transmission it it only gave me 2.0 quarts, so I put in 4.0 quarts and drove it for 30 miles. The shifting was smooth. The fluid was very dark on the first drain, so I decided to drain it again. The second drain produced 3.5 quarts and the new fluid mixed with the old which did not drain was darker and less transparent, but much better looking than the first drain. I then opened the level plug and added 4 quarts of fresh fluid. This produced 0.5 quarts of overflow thru the level port. The overflow was a darker red and less transparent that the fresh fluid but perhaps a little better better than the second drain. Judging by the second fill of 3.5 quarts before overflow began, it seems that the first fill of 4.0 quarts may have brought the system to level after the first drain returned only 2.0 quarts of what may have been the original fluid. So the transmission may have been 2.0 quarts low at 82000 miles with no obvious transmission leak. Low fluid level seemed to be the cause of the rough shifting. Deleting the adaptive learning table helped the robot smooth itself out but adding more fluid improved the performance even more. I think that driving very far after removing the adaptive learning table would have been a mistake: the robot might not have been able to tell me it needed more fluid even though it was coping with the deficit.