When the car is cruising at super low speeds like around a parking lot it feels like it surges sometimes, this is only under light gas, this does not happen at no gas. Also when cruising at 55-60 MPH if you find that spot in the gas pedal where it's a light amount of gas that holds steady at 55-60mph it feels like it's bucking and there's somewhat of a clunking sound, the whole car like kicks. It's not a consistent feeling either, some 'kicks' will be hard and rough, others will be a slight rocking or surging feeling. This morning as I was cruising around the school parking lot it started doing this 'kicking' and it died. I put it in park and restarted it, got her moving again and no problems. Well I KNOW it's not the engine, dist. cap, dist rotor, spark plugs, plug wires or anything timing related, I just had all of that replaced and this same issue was happening on the 2.5 before the 3.0 went in. I thought it had to be the torque converter going bad like engaging and disengaging, but when it died today I was a little puzzled. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
-Eric
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2000 Dodge Avenger Sport : DISTURBING MOTORSPORTS' FIRST 3.0 SWAP!!, AEM Shorty intake, Test pipe and Custom polyurethane motor mounts
how many miles is on your tranny? mine has 136,000 miles and it is slipping like crazy its jsut the nature of chrysler tranny smae thing is happening to the dodge durango my dad has, and my moms plymouth voyager.
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You smell that............thats your a$$ getting waxed!
Well it was doing it on the old engine too. But yes the mounts were replaced. I replaced the fuel pump relay today too, still no luck. Had it looked at by Aamco transmissions, transmission is perfectly fine.
I'm lost and pissed
-Eric
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If you can afford it, find a spare A604. Yes I know that can be alot to ask. lol. But, if the spare A604 still does it, then it's not a problem with the transmission. Possibly the TCM? They have to be flash programmed at the dealership. When you changed the fluid [i'm guessing 'yes' b/c it was 15k ago], did you use ATF+3 or ATF+4 only or did you use any kind of additive/other transmission fluid?
It was ATF 4+ ONLY. New fluid and filter. No additives, and I can't afford/get a second tranny to try. I'm going on the word of Aamco that's it's fine.
I would let Disturbing Motorsports play with it, but they're 5 and a half hours away :-(
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2000 Dodge Avenger Sport : DISTURBING MOTORSPORTS' FIRST 3.0 SWAP!!, AEM Shorty intake, Test pipe and Custom polyurethane motor mounts