so i park my ram on the side of the street on a hill. up till yesterday, i have to push in the gas almost half way in just for it to go and it slips when it goes into 2nd until its warmed up. and it sounds like somthings cranking when i put it in reverse. its really frustrating because i just bought it. just please tell me what i could be. i know about the "legendary" chrysler transmissions. i have a friend who has 4 transmissions in his ram. but all help is appreciated.

 

Check the fluid in it. ATF+4 only and make sure to check it while in neutral and at operating temp.

 

kinda sounds like the tranny over heated and the cooler lines went out

 

The hot ticket, I hate to say, is a road test with a scantool on it, and a pressure test. It might be as simple as deleting the check valve and doing a fluid/filter change and band adjustment, maybe flinging a governor pressure sensor and solenoid at it, but... as you're aware, the stock 46R is somewhere well shy of stout.

The tricky part is to find a transmission shop that isn't just recommending rebuilds to everyone who shows up. As far as I know all of the chain stores do it, and so do most mom 'n' pop shops. So if you can't find a shop you trust, you might roll the dice with the check valve, fluid/filter, band adjust and governor bits and hope that you're not just wasting time and money. These things do work quite often to fix most of the problem you're describing, but then again they often don't. The noise in reverse, though, makes me think it wise to look for bigger problems with the pressure test.

Good luck with it!

 

If your friend has gone through 4 rebuilds in his, DO NOT go to whatever shop he went to. A quality rebuild should last 100k+ miles. Its just hard to find good transmission shops anymore.

 

thanks for all the advice, i added more ATF+4 tranny fluid in it and i figured out theirs a leak somewhere because its running right through the tranny

 

Glad you figured it out.

Obviously, you're gonna need to find/fix that leak asap. Run it too long whilst leaking fluid, and it will overheat and die real quick. Then you WILL need a rebuild.