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Old Oct 4, 2014 | 07:45 PM
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If your pulling a trailer in Overdrive, you can really screw the trans up. It'll take a little while and the trailer doesn't have to be real heavy. Eventually you can fry the trans. Specially with old fluid. You SHOULD always pull in 3rd.
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Old Oct 4, 2014 | 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by UtahGuy
If you can't figure out what it is right away, it'll help to figure out where it is. You say your front driveshaft is out? That's good, put the rear on jackstands and start the truck. See if you can duplicate the noise. If that doesn't work, walk beside it while somebody hits the throttle and try to localize it that way.
See the thing is its not a noise.. You can only feel it.

And as for the bands slipping I don't even know what that would mean, I've never been in a transmission yet. It only does it off a start though it usually won't do it if I'm always moving a little bit. I can put plenty load after I get rolling.
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Old Oct 4, 2014 | 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Jbrew
If your pulling a trailer in Overdrive, you can really screw the trans up. It'll take a little while and the trailer doesn't have to be real heavy. Eventually you can fry the trans. Specially with old fluid. You SHOULD always pull in 3rd.
and I don't have a tow mode my shifter end snapped. I take it easy with the trailer though I've already destroyed two rear ends trying to tow and being careless on my driving.
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Old Oct 4, 2014 | 10:08 PM
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and I don't have a tow mode my shifter end snapped. I take it easy with the trailer though I've already destroyed two rear ends trying to tow and being careless on my driving.
Soo, why don't you fix your shifter? Or are rear ends and transmissions cheaper for you ?
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Old Oct 4, 2014 | 10:14 PM
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Soo, why don't you fix your shifter? Or are rear ends and transmissions cheaper for you ?
Well just recently it became my work truck, before than it saw endless amounts of mud so a lot of it was related to that just the trailer usually is what made it explode. And the other the gears went bad just over time. My shifter will be fixed soon that's for sure. But for now im trying to get everything fixed up so it can be reliable again, and im almost there. Just need this problem fixed and its golden
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Old Oct 5, 2014 | 02:13 AM
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Originally Posted by kennyS
Well just recently it became my work truck, before than it saw endless amounts of mud so a lot of it was related to that just the trailer usually is what made it explode. And the other the gears went bad just over time. My shifter will be fixed soon that's for sure. But for now im trying to get everything fixed up so it can be reliable again, and im almost there. Just need this problem fixed and its golden
I'm not sure where it broke at. I bet you can find that whole deal at a salvage yard, cheap.
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Old Oct 5, 2014 | 02:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Jbrew

I'm not sure where it broke at. I bet you can find that whole deal at a salvage yard, cheap.
Cheapest I've seen is like 120 for the setup
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Old Oct 6, 2014 | 02:09 PM
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My truck does the same thing. It's kind of a shutter for just a second if you get on the gas from a stop. If I keep my foot out of it or drive normal it doesn't do it. I wondered if it was a bit of wheel hop since it happens mostly when i'm turning & I have a limited slip rear end.
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Old Oct 6, 2014 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by mudrunner
My truck does the same thing. It's kind of a shutter for just a second if you get on the gas from a stop. If I keep my foot out of it or drive normal it doesn't do it. I wondered if it was a bit of wheel hop since it happens mostly when i'm turning & I have a limited slip rear end.
I too have limited I was wondering if maybe its trying to lock in or exchange power through the wheels and that was causing it but i don't get the problem on turning just gassing from a dead stop hard or slowing down hard to heavy throttle
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Old Oct 18, 2014 | 12:04 PM
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