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Jerks, gear hunting at low speeds, noisy engine? Try this.

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Old 09-19-15, 09:21 PM
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Default Jerks, gear hunting at low speeds, noisy engine? Try this.

You experience jerks when coming to a stop, sudden accelerations or gear hunting at low speeds, your engine is too noisy. You already tried everything: cleaned the throttle body, replaced spark plugs, did transmission flush, etc. What else can you try? Go to a an air conditioner technician and ask to perform a complete evacuation and recharge of the refrigerant (http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/609/recharge.html).
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Your ac system has nothing to do with the transmission or motor and how they run if that was the case my rx would have blown up because there is 0 refrigerant in the system. Also any shop can recharge the ac system they hook the hot and cold side up to a machine and its all done automatically.
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Originally Posted by 05ls430518
Your ac system has nothing to do with the transmission or motor and how they run if that was the case my rx would have blown up because there is 0 refrigerant in the system. Also any shop can recharge the ac system they hook the hot and cold side up to a machine and its all done automatically.
X2^^^^^ Evac the a/c system & then recharge the a/c system & your motor runs like new & the trans shifts like new......OK
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exactly as one of the others already pointed to; your ac system has absolutely nothing to do with a issue like this; one thing has nothing to do with the other\.
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Sorry all I can do is laugh at a/c reply, my 04 rx330 was doing something similar my issue was the trans fluid running hotter then normal but not hot enough to trigger , so I found in and out and ran new line on trans out to radiator the out on the radiator ran to auxiliary trans cooler mounted in front of radiator and then cooler to trans in (return port) then I removed negative terminal from battery for 15 minutes to reset Ecu trans memory haven’t had any since, also don’t forget to top off trans
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Originally Posted by Dah13
Sorry all I can do is laugh at a/c reply, my 04 rx330 was doing something similar my issue was the trans fluid running hotter then normal but not hot enough to trigger , so I found in and out and ran new line on trans out to radiator the out on the radiator ran to auxiliary trans cooler mounted in front of radiator and then cooler to trans in (return port) then I removed negative terminal from battery for 15 minutes to reset Ecu trans memory haven’t had any since, also don’t forget to top off trans
Really best to replace the trans fluid & filter, since it ran hotter then normal....
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Don’t need to my case fluid red and no Burnt smell or darkening of fluid

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