Perhaps what you are feeling is the retarding of the timing that the tranny
does on the high revving and heavy load shifts. With the OD off the feel of
the tranny is completely different, I found that sometimes the OD on when
taking off from low speeds actually works better then OD off..
Josh
(Wondering why my font is so strange)
"Al & Jeanna Figols" <ALJF@mhonline.net> wrote in message
news:3A9AC644.49D4DDA1@mhonline.net...
> I just signed on to this list today and already I have a question for
> all of you '00 4.7L automatic equipped Dakota owners. How does your
> transmission shift? I ask because mine seems to have a chatter between
> shifts sometimes. It seems the harder you accelerate the sloppier it
> shifts. The other day while pulling a trailer I had to floor it to get
> out into traffic and between the 1st and 2nd shift it acted like it hit
> the rev limiter even though it barely hit the red line. The dealer
> first said that they were waiting for a TSB, but I feel like it is more
> than that. It's been to the dealership 4 times! I feel it is a computer
> problem because it doesn't happen all of the time. I'm curious if
> anyone else has or is experiencing this. I had a 1990 Chevy truck with
> 240K miles on it that shifted better than my new Dakota does with only
> 14k miles.
> Thanks,
> Al
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