Automatic transmission manual shifting in D

[TiKi-Bronco]

I have a 24 Badlands SAS with 2.7 and automatic. I installed the Ford ProCal tune a few weeks ago and I really like it.
My question is about manually shifting the automatic. I know you can select M and use the buttons to shift gears but mine also does it in D.
I noticed one day when I read that you can see what gear you are in by pushing the up or down button once. The transmission shifts up and down with the buttons in Drive and Manual.
Does anyone else's Bronco do this? I did do some forscan changes but it was for trailer hitch stuff, windows and chimes.

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[Ducati1098]

Manually selecting a gear in drive only holds that certain gear for a few seconds, while manually selecting a gear in manual mode will leave it in that specific gear. That's the difference. It's normal

 

[zoober]

I use the manual shift in D one in a while. Like when I'm doing 30 in 9th gear.
I DS a couple times to force it into the rev range I want for the next roller hill, without increasing my gas pedal force..
Otherwise, it feels a bit sluggish when I begin going up hill in the higher gear, unless I use the pedal to downshift.
According to the live mpg gage, it seems to save a bit o gas.

 

[Rivers90]

The transmission shifts up and down with the buttons in Drive and Manual.
If you are in drive and going downhill using buttons to downshift it holds the gear. But once you get back on the gas it switches back to auto after a few seconds. So in Drive it try's to guess when you want it to go back to shifting for you and does a good job at this. Or you could shift in to and out of manual mode to get back to auto shifting in drive.
So it sounds like your bronco is shifting like any other bronco would. So your I think your forscan changes did not change the shifting.

 

[TiKi-Bronco]

Thank you members for the quick replies. I feel better now lol.

 

[Smocaine]

If it's anything like the F150 and Transit, selecting gears in D will give you a range limit - if you click it down you can lock out the top gear or few, like an old-school O/D OFF switch. The engine will still shift within the range you give it.
Manual mode will attempt to hold the selected gear and not shift down or up.
I have a manual Bronco but I am generally impressed with the way that the Ford 10-speed shifts in manual mode. It's not quite a dual clutch but it doesn't waste any time.

 

[TiKi-Bronco]

Mine seems to shift pretty slow in manual.

 

[dgorsett]

If it's anything like the F150 and Transit, selecting gears in D will give you a range limit - if you click it down you can lock out the top gear or few, like an old-school O/D OFF switch. The engine will still shift within the range you give it.
Manual mode will attempt to hold the selected gear and not shift down or up.
I have a manual Bronco but I am generally impressed with the way that the Ford 10-speed shifts in manual mode. It's not quite a dual clutch but it doesn't waste any time.

Nope, Bronco doesn’t do this. I wish it did, great feature on my F250.

 

[Smocaine]

Nope, Bronco doesn’t do this. I wish it did, great feature on my F250.

Well that's a shame, shows what I know. Insert remark about shifting my own gears to save face here.

 

[Ducati1098]

Mine seems to shift pretty slow in manual.

Stock calibration is going to. If it was a mustang, it would be different

 

[TiKi-Bronco]

I have the ford procal tune. It shifts great in D but manual shifting is slow

 

[Ducati1098]

I have the ford procal tune. It shifts great in D but manual shifting is slow

Yeah I still consider procal stock calibration basically. It’s a Ford tune so it’s never really going to make the shifts as good as a custom tune.

 

[Brian_B]

Stock calibration is going to. If it was a mustang, it would be different

Isn't it kinda waiting on ... ~you~ ... to shift it when in Manual mode? And it will only do so once you finally hit some absurd RPM limit that could stall out or over rev?

I'm not sure, I haven't tried it in F150, and my Bronco is only Manual... but that's kinda what I recall from the F150 - it will hold the gear you set all the way up until you try to do something silly, then and only then will it finally shift for you.

 

[Ducati1098]

Isn't it kinda waiting on ... ~you~ ... to shift it when in Manual mode? And it will only do so once you finally hit some absurd RPM limit that could stall out or over rev?

I'm not sure, I haven't tried it in F150, and my Bronco is only Manual... but that's kinda what I recall from the F150 - it will hold the gear you set all the way up until you try to do something silly, then and only then will it finally shift for you.

Yeah it’ll shift on its own at redline.
But there is a significant delay from when you hit the button, to when it actually makes the shift.

 

[dpAtlanta]

Stock calibration is going to. If it was a mustang, it would be different

My Mustang shifts fine in manual, but if I try and use it in an automatic mode, it doesn't seem to shift and eventually hits the rev limiter.
What am I doing wrong here?

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