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Old 08-22-2008, 08:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Whoops View Post
The phenomenon you were seeing is that you were driving it right at the low end of the speed range the controller is set to shift into 4th and then go into torque lockup. The torque lockup only happens at low to moderate levels of throttle input. When you give it a little more, it will unlock, then downshift to 3rd if you keep the throttle down.
Except the RPM was *dropping* as I pressed the throttle, not rising. It seemed to be upshifting or t.c. locking under light accel from cruise at that speed. That's why I thought it was so unusual.
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