Road Trip With the S/C

[BaM*BaM]

The mountains' aspen are beginning their autumn explosion of color. The bull elk are singing their love songs, and this is a great time to be driving a VX in the high mountains.
Today I got to try and check the mysterious gear changings.

What I have found, is true only for the locked in '3rd' gear position,... and only on STEEP inclines.
The tranny will definitely shift from 'locked' 3rd to '4' (or 'L'). It is easiest to duplicate this event when I have the engine rev'ed to hi RPM's ( over 4000), and then give a very slight let up on the gas. It will instantly shift everytime from '3' to '4'( or 'D'.)

Today, only once could I duplicate it shifting from 3 to 4 as I kept the gas constantly pressed. This was at ~4500- 5000 RPM's. (still a long way from red line).

I could NEVER get it to shift out of '2' when I had it locked in '2'.

I tried only once in locked 'L' or '1', and could not get it to shift out .

I could NEVER get it to shift out of '3' when I was on relatively FLAT roads!!

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It may be that my tranny is malfunctioning in '3' gear. On the steep roads, '3' acted much the same as normal 'D'. Not quite the same, but somewhat similar in feel and gear change.

Since this gear change occurs ONLY in '3', it makes me wonder if this is what happened to 'Dragon Bob' and 'VX crazy' since they have had this gear change occur also in locked '2' gear.

My problem with this is very, very minor, and I don't think that the S/C has anything to do with the cause. It only accentuates it. And remeber, this occurs for me ONLY on very steep mountain pass type roads.

Happy Autumn Trails,