There is no slippage associated with what's happening with my truck or any kind
of noise. It's definately the torque convertor un-locking for a split second
then locking back up. The TPS seems like a good possibility if it had a bad
spot on the resitive element or the wiper was loose. The TV cable seems less
likely since I have experienced this with the cable adjusted to FSM specs and
set tighter than spec. Could be a loose / bad connection at the tranny. All of
these are things I will check this week end.
Since this is a very suttle thing right now that I have only experienced on the
hiway I won't consider going into the tranny until it gets much worse.
Dave Clement
99 SLT+ CC 4x4
In article <43E8B601.20103@aol.com>, SilverEightynine@aol.com (Terrible Tom)
writes:
>
>
> clhyer@cox.net wrote:
> > Dave, Chris & Tom,
> > I had this same problem, except that I did not notice it when I hit a bump.
I took it back and forth to three different dealers. Had one service manager
ride with me with the portable device plugged in; he told me it was "normal"!
> > Anyhow, to make a short story long...after about a year it finally tripped
the code. They replaced a govenor speed sensor switch and govenor pressure
switch (iirc). I can look it up for you if you want. It was not a cheap fix;
and, after about 1 year it has started doing it again.
> >
> > This gets into that "reliability" issue I spoke of over the weekend. Good
luck with it, at this point it is more agravating than anything else as you
will just stop using the cruise control.
> >
> > Cal
> > '99 V-6 auto, 73,000 miles.
>
> For some odd reason Mozilla sent my replies from my defunked Earthlink
> account - weird... anyway...
>
> Thats some good info there thanks. I wish I knew for sure what it is...
> Dave - did you have the same problem as Chris and I... with the
> "slipping" when hitting a bump? Did any of you guys have a noise from
> the transmission at idle?
>
> The fact it happened when there is a bump suggests something is loose or
> under enough movement when jarred... that it causes a momentary RPM
> blip. I would almost say it was a throttle kickdown rod - except
> kickdown rods havn't been used in these trucks since they went magnum (I
> think. I had that problem with Christine and her kickdown linkage. I
> had a worn out return spring on the TBI and the transmission would keep
> downshifting on its own when the kickdown rod was knocked around on the
> highway. Hmmmmm - - I wonder if its possible something similar happens
> with ours... I can't try and solve this problem for a while as the Ram
> is garaged for the remainder of the winter and its off insurance too.
>
> I still suspect a Torque Converter because if the noise I hear from my
> tranny at idle however...
>
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