RE: Auto Transmission Woes

From: Ed Hasley (ehasley@swindelldressler.com)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 13:02:40 EDT


Hi Guys
I've been "listening" all morning now, There is alot of interesting stuff,
I'm sorry it took me this long to find this ring. In a response I got about
my tranny problem, the TV Cable is mentioned, is that the "kick down cable"
and where is it located?
Thanks in advance
ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Tom [mailto:tigers@bserv.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 7:20 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Auto Transmission Woes

At 03:39 PM 4/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a '96 Dakota long-bed with 2WD, 318, 4SPD automatic. I'm having
>trouble with the transmission shifting out of second gear, If I let up on
>the gas, it will shift into third, and then fourth. Under normal
>acceleration, the truck will wind up past 4000+rpm untill I remove me foot
>from the gas. The truck is just a daily driver and I just turned over 55000
>miles, and this is the only problem so far. Any suggestions?

A couple come to mind.

Make sure that the tranny fluid is at the full line.

Mark the position of the TV cable. Then move it one notch towards the rad.

Hope this helps.

Bob. Southern Ontario, Canada.
'97 Dakota CC Sport, FR, 5.2L, 3.55 SG, auto.



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