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    I’ve got a 99 R/T with a disconnected transmission cable. I traded for this truck a couple of years ago and have had no major issues with it since. One day I crawl underneath it and discover the cable has been disconnected. So I hook it back up. Then the trans won’t shift out of first. I redisconnect it and everything shifts out fine. Now I start reading that’s a big no no! I’m pretty good with most mechanical things but transmissions are a little foreign to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    That is weird. Normally, when disconnected the trans will go thru the gears without being able to feel it shift. just blaa, blaa, blaa, blaaa. Eventually wearing out the clutches. Hmmm...
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    That is odd. Not unless when it’s reinstalled it’s completely maxed out. Did you check the adjustment under the hood?

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    I did and it LOOKED ok. I’ll reattach it and try to adjust soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mailbox View Post
    I did and it LOOKED ok. I’ll reattach it and try to adjust soon.
    My advice is reconnect the cable and see if adjusted it under the hood does anything. If not you may have a valve body issue.

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    I actually did this to an R/T I had a couple years ago. It would not shift unless I drove it with very little throttle. Adjusted the TV cable as loose as it could be with no change. So one day I decided to see what it would do with the TV cable disconnected. It shifted fine, just no kickdown(obviously). So I just left it that way.

    Traded it to a friend and he said all he did was work the TV cable a whole bunch of times, hooked it back up to the throttle body, and it started working like it was supposed to. So I'm guessing the throttle valve was sticking in the valve body and he managed to get it free.
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