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myredracer
Explorer II
Aug 05, 2014

Pardon my thickness but what is locking out gears

in a transmission all about? What is involved to do it? I don't even know if our '09 F250 can do it. We have a V-10 with 4.1 final drive, rated to tow 12,500 lbs and tow a 29' TT weighing about 7K l...
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Dave_H_M
Explorer II
Aug 05, 2014
Whoah Mr. Forest you gave some bad skinny on torque converter lock up.

Even my ole 99 F250 would lock up when it was out of overdrive. :h

I do not know anything about the trans arrangement in the OP's truck. On my 2012 F 250 locking out a higher gear would be toggling the switch on the shift lever down to the next lower gear. The gear selected that would be the highest that the trans could then go would be displayed on the dash.

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