I also get some bad, stuttering shifts. Mostly on the 2-3 shift, especially
when tranny is cold. It only does this under moderate throttle at about
2500 rpm. Never had it do this under full throttle or anything close. I
think this tranny is weird, I can accelerate (slowly) from about 20 to 40
without the rpms hardly changing at all. I've never noticed this on any
other automatic, and it seems it would build up a lot of heat by absorbing
all that power I'm not putting to the ground.
I want a 5 speed!
Jason
2000 CC 4x4 4.7 auto
Al & Jeanna Figols wrote:
> 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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