Hey fellas,
I sold my beloved 91 Montero to a good friend, and a year or so later the trans started slipping. I can't imagine why... it only has 286k on the ticker, many of which are hard, loaded down, rock climbing, water crossing, snow blasting, 4-wheels off the ground hill jumping, stuck in the mud miles, and I am pretty sure the guy who owned it before me towed a bigass boat. Anyway, we threw a used trans in it, everything is good, all the gears are there, shifts smoothly, but the darn thing will not drop into 1st automatically after a stop, wants to start out in second unless you manually shift into 1st, or pop it into reverse or park then back to D.
Kind of embarrased seeing as though I was a master Mits tech at a dealership for 18 years. But I've been out of it for a while, and the truth is we never ever saw any problems with these transmissions. They are rock freakin solid!
Any ideas? Links to other threads? Links to other forums? Man I wish I still had access to the Mitsubishi factory tech line!
I'm in graduate school and crazy busy. I only did a quick search and I'm throwing out a rather hasty thread here so my apologies if I missed something obvious that would answer my questions.
Also, I have owned and worked on Mitsubishi's for over 20 years and know a few things so if I can ever help anyone with tech questions feel free to contact me:
Shawn
hailbalak@hotmail.com
I sold my beloved 91 Montero to a good friend, and a year or so later the trans started slipping. I can't imagine why... it only has 286k on the ticker, many of which are hard, loaded down, rock climbing, water crossing, snow blasting, 4-wheels off the ground hill jumping, stuck in the mud miles, and I am pretty sure the guy who owned it before me towed a bigass boat. Anyway, we threw a used trans in it, everything is good, all the gears are there, shifts smoothly, but the darn thing will not drop into 1st automatically after a stop, wants to start out in second unless you manually shift into 1st, or pop it into reverse or park then back to D.
Kind of embarrased seeing as though I was a master Mits tech at a dealership for 18 years. But I've been out of it for a while, and the truth is we never ever saw any problems with these transmissions. They are rock freakin solid!
Any ideas? Links to other threads? Links to other forums? Man I wish I still had access to the Mitsubishi factory tech line!
I'm in graduate school and crazy busy. I only did a quick search and I'm throwing out a rather hasty thread here so my apologies if I missed something obvious that would answer my questions.
Also, I have owned and worked on Mitsubishi's for over 20 years and know a few things so if I can ever help anyone with tech questions feel free to contact me:
Shawn
hailbalak@hotmail.com
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