- Aug 24, 2014
- 189
Hey everyone. It appears I am having a slight issue which is baffling me a bit. It seems when I am leaving work at night which turns onto a fairly straight road and I simply just start the engine, put the AC on and accelerate, it feels like for a few seconds at a time mostly in second gear that someone all of a sudden connected a trailer to the truck and it is hesitating/ dragging but then it stops. It doesn't feel like slipping even when I add more power but then once I get to a cruise speed it isn't having an issue.
I cannot really reproduce it under much other conditions if I try. No check engine light, no weird noises, AC doesn't seem to be the issue itself, the extra drag just seems to be complicating the drag which is already there and even just had the system evacuated, checked and refilled with no problems found as it was slightly low (and the issue was there before that), transmission fluid is clean and some of it was changed out because of multiple cooler line repairs for the external cooler. It has been red throughout the issue.
It seems this issue started happening a few weeks or a month after I put in my K&N intake kit. At first the extra power was noticeable, but not so much anymore. Could it have done something like messed with the PCM programming or filter oil contamination on the MAF sensor?
EDIT: When this happens the trans has a bit of a harder shift also but I also found that the fluid is a bit overfilled. I am going to fix that by changing the fluid but this issue predates the hesitation.
I cannot really reproduce it under much other conditions if I try. No check engine light, no weird noises, AC doesn't seem to be the issue itself, the extra drag just seems to be complicating the drag which is already there and even just had the system evacuated, checked and refilled with no problems found as it was slightly low (and the issue was there before that), transmission fluid is clean and some of it was changed out because of multiple cooler line repairs for the external cooler. It has been red throughout the issue.
It seems this issue started happening a few weeks or a month after I put in my K&N intake kit. At first the extra power was noticeable, but not so much anymore. Could it have done something like messed with the PCM programming or filter oil contamination on the MAF sensor?
EDIT: When this happens the trans has a bit of a harder shift also but I also found that the fluid is a bit overfilled. I am going to fix that by changing the fluid but this issue predates the hesitation.