Rat_Power_78
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Since there seem to be people on here that know something about everything I figured I’d ask this here.
I have a 2018 Ram 3500 with the 6.4 hemi. I have owned it since new. Late last week while pulling a trailer it started acting up. I essentially had only first and i think fifth gear. It would not downshift and manual control did nothing. I made it to my destination, unloaded the equipment I was delivering and headed for home. After being shut off for a little while, the truck acted normal for about the first quarter mile. Then it made a short but very hard shift into one of the upper gears and went back to what it had been doing.
Eventually the check engine light came on. I don’t remember what the Trouble code was exactly but it was something to do with overdrive pressure? We cleared the code to see if that would help. The check engine light stayed on, but the truck went back to normal.
It acted fine again until Monday morning. Again same thing, hook up to a trailer to pull a skid loader across town and it starts to act up. Since then the problem has gotten worse. Yesterday morning, on the way to drop it off at the dealer. It was like the truck could not decide what gear it wanted to be in.
The dealer tells me it needs a new transmission. Fortunately I still have power train warranty but just barely. As of yesterday they had not torn into it far enough to determine what the actual problem is but I was doing a little reading about it. It looks like there may be some kind of valve body issue where pressure is able to bleed a crossed into areas it’s not supposed to? I couldn’t find anything very positive, and I don’t know if I really trust diesel tuner forums in general.
Service guy at dealer says he’s seen a couple of these in two years. To me that sounds more common than it should be. Have any of you experienced anything like this? Should I be concerned that I’m going to have to do this again in another 50k?
The truck regularly pulls an equipment trailer with a skid loader and attachments on it and is used lightly in the winter for plowing, but I don’t beat on my trucks. At least not the one I’m depending every day. I’m definitely concerned that Dodge has not gotten away from the transmission problems it was known for several years ago.
I have a 2018 Ram 3500 with the 6.4 hemi. I have owned it since new. Late last week while pulling a trailer it started acting up. I essentially had only first and i think fifth gear. It would not downshift and manual control did nothing. I made it to my destination, unloaded the equipment I was delivering and headed for home. After being shut off for a little while, the truck acted normal for about the first quarter mile. Then it made a short but very hard shift into one of the upper gears and went back to what it had been doing.
Eventually the check engine light came on. I don’t remember what the Trouble code was exactly but it was something to do with overdrive pressure? We cleared the code to see if that would help. The check engine light stayed on, but the truck went back to normal.
It acted fine again until Monday morning. Again same thing, hook up to a trailer to pull a skid loader across town and it starts to act up. Since then the problem has gotten worse. Yesterday morning, on the way to drop it off at the dealer. It was like the truck could not decide what gear it wanted to be in.
The dealer tells me it needs a new transmission. Fortunately I still have power train warranty but just barely. As of yesterday they had not torn into it far enough to determine what the actual problem is but I was doing a little reading about it. It looks like there may be some kind of valve body issue where pressure is able to bleed a crossed into areas it’s not supposed to? I couldn’t find anything very positive, and I don’t know if I really trust diesel tuner forums in general.
Service guy at dealer says he’s seen a couple of these in two years. To me that sounds more common than it should be. Have any of you experienced anything like this? Should I be concerned that I’m going to have to do this again in another 50k?
The truck regularly pulls an equipment trailer with a skid loader and attachments on it and is used lightly in the winter for plowing, but I don’t beat on my trucks. At least not the one I’m depending every day. I’m definitely concerned that Dodge has not gotten away from the transmission problems it was known for several years ago.
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