jpawela

Let me see if I'm hearing you guys right. Does the actual shifting of the tranny (say around town) cause more heat than leaving it in POWER mode and/or keeping the O/D off thus having higher revs from the engine? I'll sacrifice a bit of fuel economy to baby the tranny. Sometimes I'll leave the lever in "2" if I'm going very, very short distances from stop light to stop light. Engine only revs to about 2800rpms between them. My intension is to stop it shifting into 3rd gear and also giving me better engine breaking. I went from a manual to auto so I kinda like to play with the lever. Is this sufficient or should I leave it alone and just leave O/D off in the city?

Hope this isn't a repost. I've search, but nothing comparable came up. Well, here goes: It looks like I will be towing my sister's car to my grandparents place. My Pathy is stock with no external auto tranny cooler or any other trick mods (except the tow hitch and wiring). It has 94K miles on the clock and as far as I know, the auto tranny is original and in good working order with clean fluid. The LSD diff also had a recent transplant of fluid. Do you guys think it will be safe to tow this far? Or to tow at all? I've never done it before with this truck. I've heard the our trannys suffer a bit without any cooling aide. Here's more details: It will be all freeway travel where I probably will travel around 65-70mph Only three hills to contend with The outside temp is a steady 68-73ºF The car being towed weighs about 2400lbs Only other weight in the truck is my 80lb Germen Shepard Appreciate any input...thanks

Let us know what you think of them when you get them on. I was considering those bad boys myself. The extent of my off-roading is basically washboard dirt trails and an occasional stream. I think they should do the job. Good luck!