Issue on the beach today
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If I'm correct and the way I understand it, the transmission recall is just turning on the stupid light, it does nothing for the actual problem, it just lets you know when the problem happens. It's bullshit.
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Decided to cruise on the beach today. I put it in 4wd high and went. It seemed not to want to shift above 2nd or 3rd and the RPM's would just drop to almost a stall. I would need to completely let off the gas and press down quite a bit to get the RPM's back up.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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Depending on how much beach driving you do it may also be worth having a look at an auxiliary cooler for your power steering fluid. There was a discussion somewhere else here on this forum about power steering pumps frequently failing after prolonged beach driving. It was suggested that the extra stress (and accompanying heat) caused by sand driving (not so much driving on the flat, hard sand by the waterline on the beach but in the rutted, soft stuff where your steering is constantly fighting the ruts and undulations) was killing the internal seals and leading to pump failure.
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