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Just in case you didn't see the sig: this is a 1998. 5 24v truck.
Well, my truck has had the ongoing issue of the irritating torque converter cycling back and forth (in/out?) for years now.
I would always take all the battery connections apart, clean them up, clean all the grounds, and all would be good again for "a while". Then it would come back.
Got tired of all that, and ordered DTT's noise filter. Did all of the above just for good measure and installed the noise filter. A ten minute job once you gain access to the transmission control module.
Took it out for a spin to check it out. Noticed a couple of things immediately. The super fast up shifts that it had been doing since the Sun Coast Torque Converter was installed have returned to normal.
The other thing is that each of the shifts is now a nice solid thunk with out any of the hesitation I had been dealing with before now. By that, I mean that it used to have a queezy "do I really want to shift, or do I want to stay in the gear I'm in" type feeling. To make it shift right, I was having to push more throttle than city driving will allow. That is, set the rpms at 1800 or more and then it shifted correctly.
Now, it don't matter if it is just above 800 or 900 or 1200 rpm, it just shifts up to the next gear and that is where it stays.
To say that I am a Happy Camper is a fact. I am really enjoying my truck again.
Now if fuel would just drop below $2. 00 a gallon again so I could afford to drive it more often :-{}
Here are a couple of pix of what you have to open up to do the job.
Sorry about the shadows, but with the batteries disconnected, I couldn't move the truck to change the angle of the sunlight coming through the grill with the hood up. Oh well... If I hadn't been dealing with 104* F temps, I might have had the common sense to use daylight flash to fill in the darker areas. Next time maybe, okay?
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If you are a really sharp eyed dude, you will see a resistor inserted in one of the wires. That does not have anything to do with the noise filter. The resistor is about 27 ohms and goes to the shift solenoid inside the transmission. I forget the exact info on this, but it was suggested by Sun Coast to fix a problem I was having with their new DC transmission control module. Worked like a charm.
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Well, my truck has had the ongoing issue of the irritating torque converter cycling back and forth (in/out?) for years now.
I would always take all the battery connections apart, clean them up, clean all the grounds, and all would be good again for "a while". Then it would come back.
Got tired of all that, and ordered DTT's noise filter. Did all of the above just for good measure and installed the noise filter. A ten minute job once you gain access to the transmission control module.
Took it out for a spin to check it out. Noticed a couple of things immediately. The super fast up shifts that it had been doing since the Sun Coast Torque Converter was installed have returned to normal.
The other thing is that each of the shifts is now a nice solid thunk with out any of the hesitation I had been dealing with before now. By that, I mean that it used to have a queezy "do I really want to shift, or do I want to stay in the gear I'm in" type feeling. To make it shift right, I was having to push more throttle than city driving will allow. That is, set the rpms at 1800 or more and then it shifted correctly.
Now, it don't matter if it is just above 800 or 900 or 1200 rpm, it just shifts up to the next gear and that is where it stays.
To say that I am a Happy Camper is a fact. I am really enjoying my truck again.
Now if fuel would just drop below $2. 00 a gallon again so I could afford to drive it more often :-{}
Here are a couple of pix of what you have to open up to do the job.
Sorry about the shadows, but with the batteries disconnected, I couldn't move the truck to change the angle of the sunlight coming through the grill with the hood up. Oh well... If I hadn't been dealing with 104* F temps, I might have had the common sense to use daylight flash to fill in the darker areas. Next time maybe, okay?
Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket
If you are a really sharp eyed dude, you will see a resistor inserted in one of the wires. That does not have anything to do with the noise filter. The resistor is about 27 ohms and goes to the shift solenoid inside the transmission. I forget the exact info on this, but it was suggested by Sun Coast to fix a problem I was having with their new DC transmission control module. Worked like a charm.
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