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Well here's my little mod I did to help improve my gear 1 to gear 2 hard shift. Anyone with a similar issue can try.

 

A little background about the problem I was experiencing. Before the mod, I was having a very hard shift from gear 1 to gear 2 at low speed (around 15 to 20 MPH) with light foot on the gas. If I drive hard then the hard shift is not there. It shift like it should be.

 

I installed 2 ground wires; one on each side of the transmission to body and it seems to dramatically reduced the hard shift I was experiencing at low speed with light gas. It has been almost a month since I added the ground wires and the shifting seems to be so much better now. Hope this help someone else.

 

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Passenger side; using existing bolt and nut. 

 

The wire is about 6 inches. It connects between the bolt that's holding transmission electrical wires to underbody heat shield. I added some heat resistant tape around the wire since it's so close to the exhaust. 

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Driver side. I forgot to measure the length of the wire. 

 

It connects between the shifting cable bracket to the bolt holding the side step. 

 

 

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M1ck3y Senior Enthusiast

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Placebo effect. K&N stickers add 20 hp, A lift kit makes you tall, and loud exhaust makes you powerful. But... Does that mean it doesn't work?

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Based off of what you said, why get a lift kit when I can just slap on a 7" inch lift sticker? It's the same effect, right?

 

Well, I can tell you that the hard shift I was having has been reduced. Whenever I drive slow while turning there are area I know I will be getting a hard shift. Sure enough, I get it most of the time. After the ground wires, in those same corner turns the hard shifts has been reduced or gone. When I do get the hard shift, it's not as hard like before, it's more like a light bump. 

 

Keep up the dealer response 👏

 

 

M1ck3y Senior Enthusiast

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10 hours ago, CrawlSlow said:

Based off of what you said, why get a lift kit when I can just slap on a 7" inch lift sticker? It's the same effect, right?

 

Well, I can tell you that the hard shift I was having has been reduced. Whenever I drive slow while turning there are area I know I will be getting a hard shift. Sure enough, I get it most of the time. After the ground wires, in those same corner turns the hard shifts has been reduced or gone. When I do get the hard shift, it's not as hard like before, it's more like a light bump. 

 

Keep up the dealer response 👏

 

 

 

 

It's great that its working for you, wish you all the best.

 

 

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On 7/28/2021 at 1:36 PM, CrawlSlow said:

Well here's my little mod I did to help improve my gear 1 to gear 2 hard shift. Anyone with a similar issue can try.

 

A little background about the problem I was experiencing. Before the mod, I was having a very hard shift from gear 1 to gear 2 at low speed (around 15 to 20 MPH) with light foot on the gas. If I drive hard then the hard shift is not there. It shift like it should be.

 

I installed 2 ground wires; one on each side of the transmission to body and it seems to dramatically reduced the hard shift I was experiencing at low speed with light gas. It has been almost a month since I added the ground wires and the shifting seems to be so much better now. Hope this help someone else.

 

How is the ground wire, supposed to help the shifting 

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I'm certainly not questioning the results here, but curious about what prompted the action of grounding the case to the frame in order to solve this issue. Mine is an obvious hard shift both up and down, sometimes down is worse like when I'm slowing down in heavy traffic while crawling along, it literally feels like I've been rear-ended. I would love a solution to this action. 

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