93 Dodge Caravan 3.0 4 sp. Transmition problums

[stikyboots]

I got this 93 caravan with a 3.0 on a 4 speed transmition at an auction. When I took it out on the road to bring it home it was in 2nt gear (limp mode) and would not shift. then I remembered how a friend had a car that did the same thing and he would get it up to about 20 and put it in reverse, stall the engine and the start it back up and the it shifted fine.

When I did this it shifted strong like there was nothing wrong. Sometimes when I stopped it would require the procedure to be repeted.
It has aprox. 120,000 miles on it. Its a real nice van expecialy for $300 but it would be nice to fix it.

[gforster]

Originally Posted by stikyboots

I got this 93 caravan with a 3.0 on a 4 speed transmition at an auction. When I took it out on the road to bring it home it was in 2nt gear (limp mode) and would not shift. then I remembered how a friend had a car that did the same thing and he would get it up to about 20 and put it in reverse, stall the engine and the start it back up and the it shifted fine.

When I did this it shifted strong like there was nothing wrong. Sometimes when I stopped it would require the procedure to be repeted.
It has aprox. 120,000 miles on it. Its a real nice van expecialy for $300 but it would be nice to fix it.

Okay I'll try to help you out here since I rebuilt one of these units myself so I also have the ATSG manual on this trans. First thing to try is change the fluid and filter with ONLY and I mean ONLY Mopar ATF+3 Fluid. Check the pan while your at it and look for black chunks (clutch material) - bad news... if you see a bit of fine brass twinklies not much of a worry. Then get the codes read out on it (Any shop with the snap-on scanner can do this) and get the readings for any codes, and also the CVI's (Clutch Volume Indexes) these will give a good idea of what kinda shape her guts are in. If you get the codes I can try to decipher them for you. Another try is the input and output speed sensors and their connectors - this alone is probably #1 cause for intermittent limp in. Let me know shat you find,

Geoff