98 ford explorer will not accel after going into passing gear

ahh is this a standard shift? 3/4/5 speed? if-so, then drop down a gear and floor it! if it is auto-matic there was no passing gear in that tranny?!lol.

My father has a Ford Ranger when when time comes to pass another vehicle it does not drop on the passing gear everything else i normal, what could cause the passing gear to not engage

sounds pretty normal. what speed do you try out the passing gear? anything above 35-45 mph and it will feel like neutral. Passing gear is actually only 1st gear. When you press down the pedal, it forces the transmisson to shift into low gear.

It sounds as though your valve body may have a lot of particulates that have entered into it causing the valves to act sluggishly. Unfortunately, this is a condition that can only be taken care of by your mechanic and is not something that the average person can fix themselves.

You may have a partially plugged fuel filter or a weak fuel pump causing your problems. When you slowly build up speed to, say, 65 mph, it doesn't take a lot of fuel all at once to get to that speed but if you try to accelerate more quickly to that same speed you essentially run out of fuel which will cause the engine to bog...which then causes the transmission to downshift one or more gears...which then will allow the engine to speed up considerably but you won't really gain all that much speed. Same goes for passing someone: If you ease into it you will be using the fuel that's available more efficiently but if you step on it then you have way more air than fuel entering the engine and it just won't hardly go much faster until the fuel supply catches back up again. The quickest way to figure out what is happening is to have someone test the actual fuel pressure during a test drive to see if the pressure remains normal or falls off as the problem occurs. If the fuel pressure does fall then I always change the fuel filter first and test it again. If the pressure is normal and the problem is gone then you've found the culprit. If the pressure is still low then you most likely have a weak fuel pump. A restricted catalytic converter can also cause similar problems but is much more rare. Good luck, hope this helps!

When catalytic converters go bad, the porcelain matrix inside comes loose and is noisy.
But you can just unbolt it, break up the loose chunks, pour out the pieces, and it will run better than ever.
If you don't pass the next emissions test, then replace it.

But it could just be the heat shield rattling instead.
Take the shield off first, to see if it goes away.

replace fuel filter.have idle speed control checked and scan it to check the egr valve.make sure it not stuck open.

it sounds like the catalytic converter is partially clogged my suburban did the same thing and i had i replace mine

hi passing gear is actually your transmision drpping down to second gear.if you hit the gas hard.if you hit the gas lightly it will only drop out of overdrive and go into third and not go into passing gear.

Funny....thats a safety feature ford now uses. Keeps you from blowing the engine and no you cant by pass it. So yes its natural. But nice to know that someone still trys to feed some speed.....