Easy Skip-Shift elimination...
12/18/10, 01:44 PM
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Leaving the connector unplugged will throw a code, specifically DTC P0803.
Installing a 50watt 6ohm resistor across the unplugged connector will provide the same electrical load as the skip shift solenoid and will fake out the computer (no codes)
The resistor is the same used to place a parallel load on LED lights (see picture). They are less than 6 dollars on ebay. I soldered a few thin solid wires to the resistor ends, stuck the wires into the connector and shrink wrapped the whole thing to the end of the wiring harness. The light still illuminates but the lockout no longer interrupts shifts.
Installing a 50watt 6ohm resistor across the unplugged connector will provide the same electrical load as the skip shift solenoid and will fake out the computer (no codes)
The resistor is the same used to place a parallel load on LED lights (see picture). They are less than 6 dollars on ebay. I soldered a few thin solid wires to the resistor ends, stuck the wires into the connector and shrink wrapped the whole thing to the end of the wiring harness. The light still illuminates but the lockout no longer interrupts shifts.
Don't know where you got that from, does not throw a code, unnecessary to use any resistor.
You are in the minority on this.
12/18/10, 04:44 PM
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Of course, I'd hate to think we were "waisting" our time discussing it.
12/18/10, 11:32 PM
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I dont know about the code but i do know after having my car for TWO whole days now i don't really like skip shift and Wisconsin roads in winter suck from frost heave !! but skip shift has to go !!
12/30/10, 08:08 PM
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Agreed. Although it's not THAT intrusive, it's just enough to make me want it gone. It seems to pop up most when driving in suburban, stoplight-to-stoplight in traffic (basically scenarios where you cannot drive it like it ought to be driven). Out on back roads by myself it's never an issue.
12/31/10, 08:37 PM
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1/10/11, 09:16 PM
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Nobody has reported any problems on any of the Mustang forums that I have seen. Been some comments by people about having done it but no problems reported though.
1/11/11, 08:12 AM
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Tranny
Now that I know the tranny is built in China am rethinking by another Ford product 
. I hate buying anything made in China 
. I was so looking forward to the 50th anniversary model . Dam am going to need alot justification to justify a buy 
. I hate buying anything made in China . I was so looking forward to the 50th anniversary model . Dam am going to need alot justification to justify a buy
1/11/11, 09:03 AM
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Good luck finding something not made in China lol
1/11/11, 09:38 AM
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It's called "Global Sourcing", in the global economy that is the way it works and will only be more so in the years to come.
China, India, Taiwan, S. Korea, etc...
1/11/11, 11:51 AM
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LOL (that became sony) and i think my I-pod is assembled in china now that i look at it !
Ummmm don't the folks in the east hold most of the paper on this country anyway ?? not to into the politics I'm just saying ....
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1/11/11, 01:42 PM
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Yup they took old Pabst cans and recycled them as transistor radios LOL (that became sony)
and i think my I-pod is assembled in china now that i look at it !
Ummmm don't the folks in the east hold most of the paper on this country anyway ?? not to into the politics I'm just saying ....
LOL (that became sony) and i think my I-pod is assembled in china now that i look at it !
Ummmm don't the folks in the east hold most of the paper on this country anyway ?? not to into the politics I'm just saying ....
i wish i had the money to buy a 2011/12 to do this. of course, i'd probably would have gotten a tune and gotten the skip shift disabled any ways.