I have been having tranny shifting issues for the past little while which I hope someone can help me with. My tranny has been slipping or clunking when trying to shift from 1st to 2nd gear. It is very noticeable at low RPM but will shift quite normally when driven quite hard. It also seems to shift normally when cold in the morning. So I took my truck into the local Dodge dealer and had a fluid/filter change done and had the bands adjusted. The problem has not gone away and is now probably worse than it was before. The fluid now has a bad burnt smell to it when I don't think it was before the fluid/filter change.
Any suggestions or should I start saving for the rebuild or purchase of a new tranny.

 

Start saving. Burnt smell is the key. The adjustment might have bought some time, but either bands or frictions are on their way out.

How many miles on it?

 

Truck has 205,000 kms (125,000 miles). Bought the truck last June with 185,000 kms.

 

I have a 99 that does same thing. I was told it was governor pressure sensor or solenoid. And i think there right. I bought a rebuilt tranny i got a deal on not realizing 01the was different to get on road i switched valve body and sensors. You guessed it ne tranny is doing the same. And that is some awful smelling tranny fluid out of bottle lol

 

i'm not a trans expert, but the general opinion is to try a test where you start out in Low-1 and manually shift to Low-2 and then Drive. If it does what you tell it to do, and when, and acts right, then you can likely fix it by replacing the gov pressure sensor and solenoid. if it doesn't act right when shifting manually, and a fluid/filter change doesn't help - then its toast.