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Old 11-30-2010, 06:44 AM
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Angry 33's on my Escalade......possible tranny problems/Lock up problems.

I installed 33inch tires for winter, they are not swampers by any means, although they are alittle aggressive, and are 3inchs taller then my stock tires. Now when I am on the thruway at 50mph'ish, I think it is causing my trucks converter to lockup and unlock, almost like it doesn't know what it wants to do, deffnitiely depends on load since when going up a hill it seems to do it more, driving down the otherside of the hill its fine, driving on a straight it is also fine. Its worse when the truck is still warming up, it mainly does it if I give more gas trying to go up small hills to keep up with morning traffic... its weird, I didn't try to give alot of gas yet but If I do give more it kinda seems to cause it to do it more on me. Its like a small shake of my truck when it happens, almost like I hit a bump in the road but the truck doesn't really hit one... hard to explain.

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BUMP, any ideas? I have to drive it home soon.
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The tc will not lock until it the TF gets up to 80 something and ECT is over 100 something, cant recall the exact temps off the top of my head.
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Originally Posted by 1slow01Z71
The tc will not lock until it the TF gets up to 80 something and ECT is over 100 something, cant recall the exact temps off the top of my head.
Whats the ECT? Im guessing TF= Tranny Fluid.
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BUMP Did it on the way home, I don't know what it is, it does it cold too... maybe its the motor having a miss? Check engine light doesn't go on, no lights are on.



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