installed new solenoid pack today, did change things but....... still not working right. put in drive and takes off in 2nd and will not up shift unless I put gear selector in 2nd then back to drive, then goes into over drive. sorta like before but not locking up converter now. come to a stop, then take off, same thing. it will go into 1st if I put shifter in 1st gear. and od light turns on and off now, where before it stayed on so it did change. going to start chasing wires. any where to find wiring diagrams???
so now it sounds like you've restored power to the trans by using the correct solenoid pack and fresh connector but now the range sensor,aka= MLPS sounds like it's bad or just maladjusted.
when the od light is always on dim,it means the trans doesn't have power (and as you've learned,high gear starts in D go along with this.)
when the od light flashes it means there are codes stored.now do a scan and post up your codes.you'll probably get the range sensor out of adjustment code.....guessing though.best get the code.it's easy.do you have an obd1 scanner?
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oh wait.yeah this makes sense.you probably left the 95-97 range sensor on the trans instead of using your old one.swap this over too and you'll probably be good to go.