Idiot Mechanic Story

[jrm81bu]

I may be wrong here ... but the transmission is designed to not shift higher than 2nd gear wHile in 4Lo, right :?:

Im not exactly sure. I know some do and some dont but i imagine it would go 2nd only because any faster and your spinning parts way too fast.

I think he is right, 4 Low is for crawling through tough stuff.

I've never heard that before. I know I have all my gears in 4 low. And my Ex's 97 did as well.

 

[dream on mcss]

I've never heard that before. I know I have all my gears in 4 low. And my Ex's 97 did as well.

To be honest i dont have a clue lol. It actually wouldnt even shift out of 1st gear for some reason, I had to manually put the shifter in 2nd to get it to go in 2nd gear. I think one thing thats pretty cool about that though is that when you put the shifter in 2nd you can use it as a second gear start. Even if you floor it if its in the 2nd gear position its STAYING in 2nd gear lol.

 

[jrm81bu]

I've never heard that before. I know I have all my gears in 4 low. And my Ex's 97 did as well.

To be honest i dont have a clue lol. It actually wouldnt even shift out of 1st gear for some reason, I had to manually put the shifter in 2nd to get it to go in 2nd gear. I think one thing thats pretty cool about that though is that when you put the shifter in 2nd you can use it as a second gear start. Even if you floor it if its in the 2nd gear position its STAYING in 2nd gear lol.

Interesting, neither one of mine would do that either.

 

[Oldsmoletick]

I may be wrong here ... but the transmission is designed to not shift higher than 2nd gear wHile in 4Lo, right :?:

Im not exactly sure. I know some do and some dont but i imagine it would go 2nd only because any faster and your spinning parts way too fast.

I think he is right, 4 Low is for crawling through tough stuff.

😳 I thought 4LO was for grass drags, they top out at 55-60 in OD. Course I am the idiot who rigged up a jeep to have 2LO .

 

[dream on mcss]

😳 I thought 4LO was for grass drags, they top out at 55-60 in OD. Course I am the idiot who rigged up a jeep to have 2LO .

Hey man nothing wrong with 2lo when your towing something heavy across your yard and pulling boats out cause you can just idle up the ramp, lol. If it didnt have them automatic hubs id probably use it alot more lol.

 

[Oldsmoletick]

hmm, I honestly never thought of its utility, and yes it could be useful, I did it for the entertainment factor :lol: .

 

[tk76]

Sad thing is they mat really belive that the transmission was bad. Which means they would have been up sh*ts creek when they put it back together and test drove it. I worked at a shop where the service writer would diagnose over the phone and would tell us the techs what to change before the vehical came in. Made us look like dumbasses 75% of the time. So not everyone is out to intentionaly rip people off, they just arent trained properly. An ASE certification is a writen test that takes book knowledge to pass. It doesnt test applied knowledge and a shop needs 1 tech with 1 certification to become a certified shop.

 

[onyxxtreme]

they didnt do anything illegal or immoral. You wont get that $$$ back
they just did a terrible diagnostics job. Sucks, but like they said b4, you have no case.
Ive been there before kinda. My expedition blew a spark plug (normal 5.4 problem), had to pay for a tow 100km's away, in Euro's. Really expensive, but at the time i had no idea what the problem was, sounded like a broken rod or something. Turned out, i coulda driven it home like that. But i learned a lesson

 

[t01blaze]

I want to do this to mine to get rid of the encoder motor. I will use a different shifter, but same idea.

http://www.astrosafarivans.com/bb2/view ... efb3f12ae3