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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 07:44 PM
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What are the signs of a failing converter? Mine feels like it has trouble flashing.
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 08:29 PM
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How does it feel like its having trouble flashing? Feel like it slipping or shuddering or ?
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 08:42 PM
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Stuttering. Same thing it did in jackson. Thought we fixed it last month bur apparently not.
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 08:48 PM
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And sluggish while trying to flash.
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 09:44 PM
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does it feel like its not doing much ....then bam!!! a shitload of power?
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 10:02 PM
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I remember hearing it do it when we were in mexico .. It was almost like it wasn't feeding enough fuel and bouncing off a rev limiter. It would scream for a second then bla bla bla bla bla.

Have you put a fuel pressure guage on it to see if its dropping pressure when it does that? I don't think that would be a torque converter problem but I wasn't in it to see and feel what it was doin
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 10:04 PM
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Building excessive heat in trans temps?
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Old Oct 13, 2011 | 06:42 AM
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no excesive heat. runs around 150-160 in the evening. I been thinking about changing injectors just to see what happens.
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Old Oct 13, 2011 | 08:08 AM
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Need to hook it up to the puter and log it when it does that to get a idea of what's goin on
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