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Old May 26, 2016 | 04:28 PM
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Check your speedo mph and GPS mph. What is the difference?
With the low profile tires your speedo will read higher than actual GPS speed. YOu need to correct the speedo gear to get within 1-3% difference. Only then will your trans shift come close to functioning correctly.
You need a different speedo gear. Probably 2 numbers bigger.
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Old May 27, 2016 | 03:09 AM
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Speedo indicates 5 or 6 mph faster than actual speed.
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Old May 27, 2016 | 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by epic.jeeper
Speedo indicates 5 or 6 mph faster than actual speed.
There you go. You need to get a gear that brings that to within +/-1mph at 60mph. It can be a little trial and error on the correct speedo gear needed to correct this.
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Old May 27, 2016 | 03:30 PM
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How would the jeep know that though? It can't tell how tall the tires are. I can't think of how tire height could affect anything other than the speedo reading a percentage higher.
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Old May 30, 2016 | 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by epic.jeeper
How would the jeep know that though? It can't tell how tall the tires are. I can't think of how tire height could affect anything other than the speedo reading a percentage higher.
I asked the same questions when my friend told me this. Finally after having the two tranny codes come up every 6 months I went ahead and got the correct speedo gear. After doing that, no more codes for the tranny. That's been over a year now.

Not sure how it works but it does.
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Old May 31, 2016 | 05:15 PM
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hmmmm, alright. It's got 26 inch tires on it now but i plan to go to a 28" so ill leave it alone for now. I took a video last night. You can see what its doing on the 1-2 shift in it.

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Old Jun 4, 2016 | 08:57 PM
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Jeep ran 9.69 at 71.5mph in the 1/8th. Gonna use a rotary switch to manually shift the trans to see if that helps. Need to weld wideband bung on too. Really want to do a 2.5 inch front exhaust pipe but can't find one. Probably needs to be custom i guess.
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Old Jun 24, 2016 | 05:48 PM
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The supercharger kit is for sale. If anyone is interested pm me.
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Old Jun 25, 2016 | 02:14 PM
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what happed to the jeep?
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Old Jun 26, 2016 | 03:04 AM
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Nothing. I'm going to do a 5.3 or 6.0 ls turbo swap
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Old Feb 2, 2017 | 06:50 AM
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do you still have the jeep? still planning LS? your rev issue is definitely trans and TCM related, but I dont want to get too much farther into it if the jeep is gone, or motor is pulled.
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Old Feb 3, 2017 | 04:43 AM
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Originally Posted by mountaineerjeff
do you still have the jeep? still planning LS? your rev issue is definitely trans and TCM related, but I dont want to get too much farther into it if the jeep is gone, or motor is pulled.
Yep I still have. The motor and supercharger are long gone though. Currently building the motor and getting the engine bay ready for paint. Thanks for offering your help though.
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