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Looking for some help, input, direction please... ...
Right now too cold to get on the ground and under the truck to do a basic auto transmission fluid change and drop the pan. That would be the 1st place I would start to see if there's lots of big parts in the pan or see if a basic fluid change would help.
So it sits.
And figured I could come and get some help and input from the best forum for it.
I have a 99 Quadcab with the auto 4x4.
33x12's since 25kmiles. no lift.
About 75K miles on it.
Most towing camping trailer, offroad, and around town mileage...
Been about 30k since it's last transmission fluid change.
Hi-tech transmission pan.
transmission running with temp sensor in hi-tech pan at about 150 lots of around town driving / lots of stop and go. Seems it's as it's always been.
Fluid is a bit dark, but still pinkish and smells sweat, not burnt.
It started about 6 months ago with it giving me a small amount of "bucking" , I gueess more like hunting you could feel between 1 and 2 when it was "trying to decide to shift" if I was too light on the pedal.
Could hear it in the engine rpm too.
A little more go peddle pressure it would go to 2nd, a little less pressure it would stay in 1st and stop hunting.
This happens as I would slowly cruise out of my block or through a parking lot or between all the stop signs every block
When on the road, if keeping with normal traffic flow between lights it was fine, felt normal.
Just started a couple of weeks ago with not wanting to shift out of 1st if there was just a little too much go peddle pressure.
(transmission would be doing it's hunting thing between 1-2, so press the go peddle a little more and instead of shifting, it whines out in 1st and just keeps going in 1st).
There is sweet spot, not too slow, not too fast, and it'll "slip" it's way into 2nd. Can't feel it to easily, it's really mushy shift, more like a slide.
But gotta find that sweat spot to make it shift into 2nd. Can do it by letting it "whine" out in 1st, getting of the peddle, rpm's come down, slowly go back into the peddle, and it takes 2nd without any sort of authority, just sort of falls into it.
IF too easy, it does it's bucking/hunting thing between 1 and 2.
Now if just too much on the go peddle or you accelerate off the line, it just whines out in 1st for ever, and have to get off the peddle to get it to go into 2nd.
1st feels find off the line, don't feel it slipping, but as it winds out, there's nothing there to contribute to forward momentum after 2krpms. It feels as if its slipping between 2k and 3. 6K rpms.
2-3 , 3-OD and lockup still feel normal and strong and the truck pulls well and wants to keep going.
Reverse feels normal.
Normal reverse now being for a few good years, if it sat around, and cold, it felt like it was subjected to the drain back problem, the old chyrsler, wait for the pressure to build and reverse will come back (too a 1-2 seconds). Still does that, very consistant problem when cold and sitting for a couple of days.
I have no experience inside a slush box...
Am I just badly in need of a fluid change and 1band adjustment?
(I have a shop I trust, with it being soo cold, I'll bring it to them)
Or am I looking at the end of the transmission's life and don't stray too far from home?
Or something else?
IF it's the transmission getting ready to leave us, then we'll get into that enevitble question... .
I posted a poll just so if you see all good input and don't want to pile on and reply, but can please just let me know your input anyway by posting on the poll... .
TIA for the input and guidance.....
Right now too cold to get on the ground and under the truck to do a basic auto transmission fluid change and drop the pan. That would be the 1st place I would start to see if there's lots of big parts in the pan or see if a basic fluid change would help.
So it sits.
And figured I could come and get some help and input from the best forum for it.
I have a 99 Quadcab with the auto 4x4.
33x12's since 25kmiles. no lift.
About 75K miles on it.
Most towing camping trailer, offroad, and around town mileage...
Been about 30k since it's last transmission fluid change.
Hi-tech transmission pan.
transmission running with temp sensor in hi-tech pan at about 150 lots of around town driving / lots of stop and go. Seems it's as it's always been.
Fluid is a bit dark, but still pinkish and smells sweat, not burnt.
It started about 6 months ago with it giving me a small amount of "bucking" , I gueess more like hunting you could feel between 1 and 2 when it was "trying to decide to shift" if I was too light on the pedal.
Could hear it in the engine rpm too.
A little more go peddle pressure it would go to 2nd, a little less pressure it would stay in 1st and stop hunting.
This happens as I would slowly cruise out of my block or through a parking lot or between all the stop signs every block
When on the road, if keeping with normal traffic flow between lights it was fine, felt normal.
Just started a couple of weeks ago with not wanting to shift out of 1st if there was just a little too much go peddle pressure.
(transmission would be doing it's hunting thing between 1-2, so press the go peddle a little more and instead of shifting, it whines out in 1st and just keeps going in 1st).
There is sweet spot, not too slow, not too fast, and it'll "slip" it's way into 2nd. Can't feel it to easily, it's really mushy shift, more like a slide.
But gotta find that sweat spot to make it shift into 2nd. Can do it by letting it "whine" out in 1st, getting of the peddle, rpm's come down, slowly go back into the peddle, and it takes 2nd without any sort of authority, just sort of falls into it.
IF too easy, it does it's bucking/hunting thing between 1 and 2.
Now if just too much on the go peddle or you accelerate off the line, it just whines out in 1st for ever, and have to get off the peddle to get it to go into 2nd.
1st feels find off the line, don't feel it slipping, but as it winds out, there's nothing there to contribute to forward momentum after 2krpms. It feels as if its slipping between 2k and 3. 6K rpms.
2-3 , 3-OD and lockup still feel normal and strong and the truck pulls well and wants to keep going.
Reverse feels normal.
Normal reverse now being for a few good years, if it sat around, and cold, it felt like it was subjected to the drain back problem, the old chyrsler, wait for the pressure to build and reverse will come back (too a 1-2 seconds). Still does that, very consistant problem when cold and sitting for a couple of days.
I have no experience inside a slush box...
Am I just badly in need of a fluid change and 1band adjustment?
(I have a shop I trust, with it being soo cold, I'll bring it to them)
Or am I looking at the end of the transmission's life and don't stray too far from home?
Or something else?
IF it's the transmission getting ready to leave us, then we'll get into that enevitble question... .
I posted a poll just so if you see all good input and don't want to pile on and reply, but can please just let me know your input anyway by posting on the poll... .
TIA for the input and guidance.....
