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Re: automatic 2nd gear lockout

Thanks Larry - looking forward to the info.
Mike McLaughlin
  On Monday 01-26-98, 01:50 pm, Larry said:
-As promised, I checked the re-program number 
this
-past weekend.  When the second re-program was
-installed the dealer didn't update the sticker 
so I
-don't have the number for the improved program.
-The program I didn't like was installed in
-December, 96.  I will get the number for the
-improved program the next time I talk to the 
dealer
-which should be soon. I will post it as soon as 
I
-get it.
-
-Larry 
-
-On Friday 01-23-98, 08:01 pm, Rick O said:
-- Larry,
--
--I have a 97 (built 10/23/96) that seems to run 
&
--shift fine (I think?).  Is their any way to
--determine what program you have (code, number,
-etc)?
--
-- On Friday 01-23-98, 07:35 pm, Larry said:
---You guys are describing exactly how the
---transmission shifted in my 95 after the PCM 
was
---reprogrammed the winter of 96.  I put up with 
it
---until July 97 when I went in and bitched.  the
---dealer said they had just received a new 
program
---and installed it for me.  The tranny shifts 
like
---the original program, ie. very good, and my 
fuel
---mileage increased as well.  Partial throttle 
EGT
---went up too.  Sounds like you guys have early 
97s
---and should have your PCM reprogrammed with the
-late
---97 programming.  You'll find your accelerator
---doesn't have to be depressed as far for a 
given
---speed with the new program.
---
---Larry 
---
--- On Friday 01-23-98, 03:30 pm, Bob said:
----On Friday 01-23-98, 03:16 pm, Mike McLaughlin
----said:
-----Yep - I'm sure.  Also - on my 95, when I had 
it 
-----
-----in cruise control and going up a big hill, 
it 
-----
-----wouldn't shift down - stayed locked in 4th 
and
--if 
-----
-----it dropped 10 mph it cut out of cruise.  My 
97 
-----
-----downshifts if I lose 1 or 2 mph's - pain in 
the 
-----
-----ass when pulling a load, shifting all the 
time.
----
----If I have cruise control engaged, about the 
time
----I've lost 1 or 2 mph the engine is at 1/2 
-3/4
----throttle which is about as far as cruise will
-take
----it.  I get the downshift too at which point I
-lock
----out O/D to eliminate the constant upshift-
--downshift
----cycle that I would otherwise get for the
-remainder
----of the climb.  My car (also E4OD) pretty much
-acts
----the same way.  
----
---
-------Mike McLaughlin

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