cwickgo9
Junior Member
Hello, everyone!
This is my first post here and I'm hoping to get some ideas.
I'm pretty sure the answer will be to take it to the dealer, but I'm hoping to get at least some insight.
I'm okay mechanically so I suspect I'll understand most of any responses.
Sorry for the long post but here goes.
So. Just returned from a trip from Dallas, Texas to the smokey mountains in NC. Pulled a small trailer (open - not enclosed) with a motorcycle on it. Zero issues the entire trip there with and without the trailer, up and down the mountains twisty roads.
On the way back, at one stop having to accellerate hard to get ahead of the traffic with the trailer to make the highway entrance, it performed beautifully out accellerating the whole crowd with the trailer. Unfortunately, about 3-5 miles down the interstate, there began a whine, louder when downshifting up a hill. Suddenly, the transmission temp light illuminated. I checked the transmission temp and it read 275F. I slowed and found a dealer about 3 miles down the road. The temp began falling as I slowed and the light was off before I reached the dealer. Being a Saturday, there was little they could do that day.
The only "odd" thing I could find was that somehow the rubber plenum intake hose from the air filter box had almost pulled off, allowing unfiltered air to suck directly into the intake through the small opening between the intake neck and the hose. I loosened the clamp and shoved it back down and retightened the clamp.
Since the light had gone off, I let it cool a little longer and continued down the highway. The temps dropped to 215 (ambient temp was 95F) and basically stayed in that range the remainder of the drive that day. We stopped overnight and the next morning, drove basically the same way 75MPH, trans stayed at or below 200F with ambient temps in the 68-75F range.
Questions:
1. Do I need to see the dealer? Will it have a code they can pull and if so, what might it be?
2. Did the hard accelleration previous to the spike cause it - if so, how?
3. Could the plenum hose have anything to do with it?
Any other observations or thoughts I should consider? I have an extended warranty (only 56K miles).
Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
This is my first post here and I'm hoping to get some ideas.
I'm pretty sure the answer will be to take it to the dealer, but I'm hoping to get at least some insight.
I'm okay mechanically so I suspect I'll understand most of any responses.
Sorry for the long post but here goes.
So. Just returned from a trip from Dallas, Texas to the smokey mountains in NC. Pulled a small trailer (open - not enclosed) with a motorcycle on it. Zero issues the entire trip there with and without the trailer, up and down the mountains twisty roads.
On the way back, at one stop having to accellerate hard to get ahead of the traffic with the trailer to make the highway entrance, it performed beautifully out accellerating the whole crowd with the trailer. Unfortunately, about 3-5 miles down the interstate, there began a whine, louder when downshifting up a hill. Suddenly, the transmission temp light illuminated. I checked the transmission temp and it read 275F. I slowed and found a dealer about 3 miles down the road. The temp began falling as I slowed and the light was off before I reached the dealer. Being a Saturday, there was little they could do that day.
The only "odd" thing I could find was that somehow the rubber plenum intake hose from the air filter box had almost pulled off, allowing unfiltered air to suck directly into the intake through the small opening between the intake neck and the hose. I loosened the clamp and shoved it back down and retightened the clamp.
Since the light had gone off, I let it cool a little longer and continued down the highway. The temps dropped to 215 (ambient temp was 95F) and basically stayed in that range the remainder of the drive that day. We stopped overnight and the next morning, drove basically the same way 75MPH, trans stayed at or below 200F with ambient temps in the 68-75F range.
Questions:
1. Do I need to see the dealer? Will it have a code they can pull and if so, what might it be?
2. Did the hard accelleration previous to the spike cause it - if so, how?
3. Could the plenum hose have anything to do with it?
Any other observations or thoughts I should consider? I have an extended warranty (only 56K miles).
Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
