Hey all,

So the girl has been sleeping in the garage for the winter and I finally took her out today for her initial cruise and to get an inspection. Besides the fact that the shop had to take all my tint off to pass and leave glue residue (that, a different story) had a nice run with her. I noticing some concerning behavior from the transmission that I am trying to track down. While driving under 40, depending on speed most of the time I notice she will shift through the gears smoothly - but I get a few situations where either on low acceleration from OD to third I will get stuttering as the car tries to downshift. I hit the OD button and I am finding that is not helping, well sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I also noticed at one point, coming to a complete stop slight stuttering from the car, right under 1,000 rpms sitting at a light. I will throw the car in neutral and it seems to smooth out.

I usually am not having a problem when she shifts through the gears and I try local driving with OD off - again this only happens sometimes - it is not constant so basically when I am waiting for it to happen to try and remember what gear I am in or RPM, its fine. Then when I stop paying attention, it might creep up, lol.

I have my OBOII computer interface that I can run to my laptop so I can monitor shift points and possibly try to graph out when this happens, just have not gotten to that point yet.

I checked the fluid a few times, especially after a drive - clean, full and no metal shavings at all.

Being that the car only has 30,400 miles on it, I am also assuming that the fluid might have never been changed, so I am thinking of changing that in the next few weeks.

Any thoughts? Is this related to the factory shifting programing? I have seen a bunch of threads that usual result to that - and to get a tune to address which I am okay with doing. I am not really used to these transmissions, as all my other vehicles were Vics - besides that frankinvic I built with my extra Marauder motor and tranny, but I never drove that much so I dont have a general feel.

Thanks all