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How to keep gear in first?

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hoovie

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I use my 1995 XJ mostly for off-road. Is there any way to keep the stock automatic transmission at first gear? I need it at first gear badly to coupe the downhills. I know there is a method to lockout the second gear, yet what I need is to keep it at the first.

Thanks for sharing.

:dunno:
 
In my 98 all you have to do is shift from park or neutral straight down into 1-2 while in 4lo and it will keep you in first till redline. It's really not the greatest but it works. If you look into awshifting he has a kit that poeple have run and it works well
 
I've tried your method and in fact that's how I do it now. However, my transmission will shift to second at around 2,500-3,000 rpm. The transmission is on Sport mode. If I used Comfort mode, the change will happen at lower RPM. :sure:
 
Add a switch inline with the tcu to hold the aw4 into first. Lots of data online as well as here. I added a couple to manually control the AW4.
 
AW4shifting is great its what I have on my 99 with an AW4.

You can also just wire up solenoid power on off switches. Doing this will allow you to keep it in any gear with 4 rocker switches.
 
hoovie said:
I've tried your method and in fact that's how I do it now. However, my transmission will shift to second at around 2,500-3,000 rpm. The transmission is on Sport mode. If I used Comfort mode, the change will happen at lower RPM. :sure:
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I used to have this problem.

SOMETHING IS WRONG.

In my case, I had a short that was telling the jeep I had my foot on the brake pedal all the time - I would lose good 1-2 control and no torque converter lockup.

The solution isnt to work around the symptom, but to fix the problem. :)
 
cal said:
I used to have this problem.

SOMETHING IS WRONG.

In my case, I had a short that was telling the jeep I had my foot on the brake pedal all the time - I would lose good 1-2 control and no torque converter lockup.

The solution isnt to work around the symptom, but to fix the problem. :)
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Yeah I guess it's the torque converter lockup. I will try to look for this problem first and get back soon, cheers! :cheers:
 
I thought NSS tells the TCU what gear you have selected. If so the NSS may need cleaned or replaced. That write up is also on gojeep's site.
 
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