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noctua
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7/13/2005
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I have a 2003 Quad 4x4, 4.7L AWD, 3.9 rearend w/positrac, no ABS. I thought the 5-45RFE was a good thing, but now, with a whopping 14,000 miles I think it has issues and my dealer(s) are deaf, dumb, blind and stupid.
The truck sits a lot...when I do drive it, I back out of my driveway, pull up 20 feet to a stop sign and step on the brake. I am at a dead stop and then it starts "bucking". The rpms stay idle but it feels like someone is repeatedly ramming me from behind. The rear of the truck actually bounces up and down, and yes, I'm at a complete, absolute stop. After I pull away from the stop it shifts normally, sounds normal, etc. It won't happen again until the truck sits for a day or two. Does anyone have any ideas that I can beat my dealer about the head and shoulders with?
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.boB
Dodge Dakota
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7/13/2005
11:05:41
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Does the truck sit on flat ground? I remember hearing about similar problems a while back. There's no anti-drain valve, so the fluid tends to drain out of the converter. Maybe parking it nose down would help??????
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noctua
Dodge Dakota
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7/13/2005
11:18:03
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I do park on the flat. I read the issues with the fluid draining out of the converter and I don't have a problem with the truck not moving at any point. Earlier this year I would let the truck sit for a minute or so to defrost and it would still "buck" while stopped for the first time in a trip. Thanks for the reply.
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Zeb
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7/13/2005
23:51:40
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I heard the Dodge boys farmed out all the transmission design work to a little hut in China, and now they're not answering their phone.
Actually, my '98 dakota transmission has been slipping, off and on, since about a year after I bought it (on, when I'm driving alone, off, whenever I took it back to the dealer)
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Figols
Dodge Dakota
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7/15/2005
09:36:19
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I had the same issue with my '00 when it was new. The dealer could never duplicate it so subsequently they never fixed it. It did go away eventually. I did have a couple of PCM flash TSB's done for various issues so it may have been one of them that got rid of the jerking. I agree though, the first few times it happened I thought someone rear ended me.
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.boB
Dodge Dakota
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7/16/2005
00:00:37
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"I do park on the flat. I read the issues with the fluid draining out of the converter and I don't have a problem with the truck not moving at any point. Earlier this year I would let the truck sit for a minute or so to defrost and it would still "buck" while stopped for the first time in a trip."
If I remember the story correctly - and maybe I don't - the problem was that fluid drained out of the torque converter, and from somewhere else (shift module???). It didn't get pumped back up in to those areas until the trans was in Drive or Reverse. In Neutral or Park, the fluid didn't get directed back to where it had drained from.
I gues the way to eliminate that would be to start the engine, put it in drive and wait 1-2 minutes, then drive off. If it still occurs, that can't be it.
Sorry I can't be more helpfull. But I'm reaching back a year or two. At my age, that seems to get tougher every year. ;)
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stumpy
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7/19/2005
09:22:23
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CHeck your brake drums because if the rear end is bouncing while you stop then your drum could be rusted over, you said it sat alot, did it sit through the winter, then that could be one thing.
the dealer had to turn and shave mine because when i first bought it they said i was the first to drive it all winter>
Stumpy
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