I drive a '00 4.0 Sport w/ (obviously) 4WD, 81k miles. Only mods to it are a chopped airbox for it to breathe better and 235-75-R15 tires.
Edit: Dang it, forgot to mention its automatic.
THis weekend a problem finally reared its ugly head. I was leaving a rec area so I stopped to put 'er back in 2WD. The light went off but I didn't hear it drop out of 4WD until I'd heard one of those loud clunks that makes you cringe. My check engine light came on right away and the aroma of burnt tranny fluid was there too. An odd symptom...I went to leave and discovered taht if I went over 3000RPM the engine would sputter and shudder, just flat out refused to go any higher. Real rough idle. Just in case it was somethign serious I limped home before turning it off, but once I did and restarted it, it ran fine. My check engine light's still on though, and my tranny fluid's brown.
I HAVE noticed before that in 4low ( I never use that setting in all this sand out here) it becomes a b!tch to return to 2WD...if I had to guess I'd say there's a gear problem but then I know absolutely nothing about transmissions. Well, I know they have gears. Any pointers? I'll have to wait for payday before I can go get the codes read ( no one in town wants to read them for free, I've checked already.)
Edit: Dang it, forgot to mention its automatic.
THis weekend a problem finally reared its ugly head. I was leaving a rec area so I stopped to put 'er back in 2WD. The light went off but I didn't hear it drop out of 4WD until I'd heard one of those loud clunks that makes you cringe. My check engine light came on right away and the aroma of burnt tranny fluid was there too. An odd symptom...I went to leave and discovered taht if I went over 3000RPM the engine would sputter and shudder, just flat out refused to go any higher. Real rough idle. Just in case it was somethign serious I limped home before turning it off, but once I did and restarted it, it ran fine. My check engine light's still on though, and my tranny fluid's brown.
I HAVE noticed before that in 4low ( I never use that setting in all this sand out here) it becomes a b!tch to return to 2WD...if I had to guess I'd say there's a gear problem but then I know absolutely nothing about transmissions. Well, I know they have gears. Any pointers? I'll have to wait for payday before I can go get the codes read ( no one in town wants to read them for free, I've checked already.)
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