Hey all.

I'm getting an issue with the auto in my SCrew. I can duplicate it on demand, happens every day on the way to work. Here's how it goes:

When I get off the freeway, I have to take an immediate, sharp, right hand turn. As I go through the turn, the tranny feels like it lets loose for a second, and then grabs back up. Another three or four blocks down the road, another right hand turn, does the same thing.

Intermittantly, the truck seems to 'hang' when shifting from reverse to drive, like it takes a full second, second and a half to shift into drive. But, for that, I drove a buddy's SCrew, and it seemed his did the same.

About 40k on the tranny, was flushed around 30k at the dealer.

Recently, I drove from Nebraska back to Dallas with two sleeper couches and a curio cabinet in the bed, and the biggest trailer that UHaul rents packed to the gills. The tranny only dropped out of drive on the very worst of the hills, and ran like a champ the whole way. 6.5 miles a gallon worth of champ, but like a champ none-the-less. Save for the occasional vehicle on a car trailer, and a 3000 lb bass boat, this truck hasn't ever seen hard towing.

Just wondering if I'm going to need to get the hammer out and start heading to the piggy bank. Thanks for any help, or ideas.

 

The first thing to check is fluid level. Losing drive in a turn is the first symptom of low fluid.

Get the truck good and warmed up br drving at least 10 miles. Then check the fluid level with the truck idling in park.

 

Done. Shows good level. Forgot to mention that.

 

As Casey_1 said, it's a classic and most common symptom of lack of fluid. Might be worth a shot to drop the pan and make sure the filter is seated tight into the valve body, sometimes they work loose from vibration etc.

 

What all is entailed in dropping the pan and checking the filter. Forgive me, but I don't have any experience in tranny internals. Them's get me scurred.

 

You're not really getting into the tranny internals. You remove the bolts holding the trans pan to remove the pan. When you do that, you'll see the trans filter hanging there. Just make sure that it is pushed in and seated well where it plugs into the valve body.

When removing the pan, have a drain pan ready, remove the bolts on three sides first, then slowly alternate loosening the remaining bolts on the last side, this will make it easier to catch the fluid thats gonna be gushing out!!

 

Would it help any to go ahead and replace the filter while I'm in there?

 

I would since I'm already in there. Also that way you get a new seal that comes with the filter. When you remove the old filter, make sure that you remove the old o-ring seal as they tend to stay inside the hole.