lifted93xplorer
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- January 15, 2010
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- City, State
- Arlington, WA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '93XLT
I would appreciate some advise from any tranny guru's, I'll explain a little. My EX is a '93 XLT lifted w/33" swampers. I still have the stock 3.73 gears so my rig doesn't see O.D. unless I'm on a flat stretch of freeway doing over 70. I always drive in 3rd. I've tried to baby the trans but it's seen alot of deep snow and some trails. It has 200,875 miles.I'll get to the issue. The other day my wife drove it and said it was (missing a beat) , well naturally I have no clue what that means but the next day on my way to work I noticed a hesitation on I believe the 3-2 downshift. It only happened once that morning on my way to work, but on the drive home (10 miles) is when it became more frequent. Now it happens every 2-3 shift, it feels like it's slipping but if I let off the throttle it shifts ok and once in 3rd it doesn't slip. All other gears shift smooth.
I checked the fluid and it's at the top of the crosshatch mark, exactly where it was when I did the filter change and installed a drain plug (6,500 miles ago). The fluid looks and smells good as it did at the last filter change. I have a filter and fluid because I was going to change it this weekend, maybe pointless now. My rig has the factory cooler and auxilary.
Is it catastrophic? I doubt it because all other gears are working properly. So what could cause my symptoms? I did search the forums the last two evenings but couldn't find anything exactly like mine. I would appreciate any advise. I would like to figure it out this weekend but if not I do have another truck to drive. I have seen some great threads by Glacier and Brooklyn Bay and I wanted to at least pull the VB but oriellys didn't have a VB gasket and made it sound like it would be hard to get but I hope they're:smoke:
sorry for the rambling but I think that I'm incapable of just saying, HELP MY TRANNY IS SLIPPING. Thanks in advance for any help. I used to do the mechanic thing so I'm not afraid to dig in but the two areas that I'm lacking knowledge are rebuilding trannys and gear installs but not afraid to learn. 1 more thing, if the trans is deemed as in need of a rebuild I would want to swap to a m5od because I've been dreaming about it for a long time and why spend the money on a rebuild when what I want is a manual anyhow.
Any one in WA selling a m5od?