So the transmission went out... Wanna hear your tranny failure stories!
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From: Battle Ground WA
It doesn't take long for muscle memory to take over the shifting so you don't have to even think about it. And only a bit longer for the feel of floating the shifts to kick in. The hard part is remembering to roll the window down before flicking your roach, and then having to put out the groin fire with your beer and hitting the trash dumpster anyway.
If you read through some of this thread, it's just a bunch of gibberish along with one a few actual transmission failure stories, but whatever floats your boat.
Last edited by jkeaton; Aug 16, 2013 at 11:50 AM.
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From: Lakefield, Ontario
Anyways best I got was out of my old Dakota, with the 42RE and 3.9L. Bought the darned thing and drove it 3 days before O/D dropped out of it. At that point, I was really just putting around town , never making it over 45-50 km/h so I didnt bother with it until about 3 months later when i started going to school in a neighboring town that I had to take the highway to . Transmissions other gears worked just fine. Since I knew nothing about transmissions at the time, I took it to my neighbour who is a good friend and mopar mechanic who diagnosed it as the over-drive solenoid wasnt working. Replaced it and no dice, no overdrive still. So next, he got a scan tool and checked out what the computer was saying. It was saying the transmission was continually -200 or something ridiculous like that. Replaced sensors, still no no overdrive. At this point hes questioning the PCM, so we get a JY unit, try it and still no overdrive. At this point Ive got the entire dealer shop confused as to why it wasnt working. He then told he had one more thing they were gonna try. Don't ask how because I dont know, but somehow he made it read temperatures from the motor itself and sure enough over drive worked after that! Weirdest thing I ever seen in a vehicle hands down.
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Bought my 2001 Ram 1500 4x4 at auction a little over year ago with 116,000 miles. Transmission started off in 2nd gear but did not slip. Changed fluid and filter fixed problem. Now over 12,000 later it's "sometimes" starts off in 2nd an doesn't want to change until you accelerate to 5,000 rpm, then shifts hard. May operate normally in all gears for next several trips before a it acts up again. Codes indicated the governor solenoid, replaced with new component but still acts up. Trans mechanic says trans has previously been rebuilt. He and another mechanic shop seems to thinks it is a loose wire or connection somewhere, but where in the trans or could it be in a computer control somewhere?
