I'm new to the forum and new to dodge automatics, my truck used to surge at light throttle between 1st and second occasionally now it won't shift from first to second under regular acceleration unless you let up on the pedal. If you baby it, it shifts just fine, I just changed the fluid and filter two weeks ago and the output speed sensor last night. I tried to pull codes but there aren't any at all not even pending codes. The APPS was bad when i bought the truck back in January and I replaced it with a genuine Mopar. I am not sure where to go from here any help is greatly appreciated.

How did you check for codes? the key trick will not work on your year of truck. Check all of your battery connections. On my truck I can always tell when I have something wrong with the batteries, tranny shifting gets all wierd!

I borrowed a Snap-On scanner from work to check codes and I replaced the battery's and the cable ends a month ago.

it sounds like your TV cable might be out of adjustment.

Well I tried the tv cable but there is no slack, I found a place that sold me the gov pressure solenoid and transducer for less than a hundred bucks so I gave those a try and no luck so I'm gonna pull the valve body today to see what we find.

did you replace both electrical sensors, the governor pressure and the solenoid one?

Have adjusted the bands, especially the front band, per the factory service manual?John L.Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

I put a gov pressure and a transducer in it. Since It didn't work I adjusted the front band and it screwed in really far but still torqued down like it was supposed to. Test drove and still didn't fix it so i took it to the local dodge dealer:banghead: and they told me the front band was broke until I told them I just adjusted it so they changed there mind and told me there was no material left on the band and quoted for a new tranny. I brought the truck home and pulled the tranny now I'm waiting on heavy duty front band, triple disc converter, upgraded clutches, and a shift kit. Upon pulling it out I found a boost valve spring retainer clip broke it is located on the back of the valvebody. Can't wait to get it finished.

I put a gov pressure and a transducer in it. Since It didn't work I adjusted the front band and it screwed in really far but still torqued down like it was supposed to. Test drove and still didn't fix it so i took it to the local dodge dealer:banghead: and they told me the front band was broke until I told them I just adjusted it so they changed there mind and told me there was no material left on the band and quoted for a new tranny. I brought the truck home and pulled the tranny now I'm waiting on heavy duty front band, triple disc converter, upgraded clutches, and a shift kit. Upon pulling it out I found a boost valve spring retainer clip broke it is located on the back of the valvebody. Can't wait to get it finished.

you torqued to 72 inch lbs and then backed off 2 turns correct?

Yes that is exactly what I did.