Broken Down in N. California..north of Eureka
GF was driving our Class C, 1999, E350, V10, 22' and as we were headed downhill, she apparently pulled the shift lever down into first instead of second and the engine made a loud screaming bang. We c...
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Great to hear you are back on the road with minimal repair :)
carringb wrote:Even the regular valve body transmissions of old had a mechanical governor to prevent downshift that would over-rev the engine.
Unfortunately your '99 may have been built on a ''98 chassis, which would mean it has an E4OD transmission which had a conventional valve-body, so over-revving on a manual downshift is possible (not so with the 4r100 which came out in '99.
