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JoeBand - thanks! It's always nice to close a deal and be done with craigslisters.

Sold!

It almost looks like her kids went to town with some sticks on the headliner. Also, a few pictures of the tires. The fronts are in great condition, the rears probably need to be replaced soon.

****SOLD****Well, I've gone to the darkside and picked up a 100-series. I really like my 3rd gen, but I needed more room for my growing family so now I have to sell it. I bought this from the original owner about a year ago. It's completely stock and runs and drives excellent. 4X4 SR5, 3.4L V6...

C'mon, that's when the fun starts! :D

As I lightly accelerate out of the corner, I'll get an increase in RPM (say a few hundred) and then a shift/lock-up and the RPMs drop to normal (or what seems normal for a slow speed). Is this the TC locking up again while in 2nd gear? Sorry, kinda hard to describe completely, I can grab a...

Thanks for the video. It's starting to make more sense now. So it sounds like: Accelerating to 3000 RPM -> 3rd gear RPM drop to 2500 RPM -> shift to 4th (feels like a shift) RPM drop to 2000 RPM -> TC locked up Is that right? I plan on "flushing" in my garage following Dropping Pan And...

Oh wow. If that's the case you just saved me a lot of worry! FWIW, the tranny feels pretty normal and solid outside of these two cases. Anyway we can confirm if that's normal? Do other folks get the 4 1/2 gear feeling when getting up to speed?

Yes, there is a lurch when it engages. The lurch isn't terrible, but it's noticeable. I'll look into the torque converter aspect a little more as that's what kernel.panik mentioned. Thanks!

It feels like 2000 RPM is where it should've shifted to because that's where it eventually lands and it feels normal. The stall/partial shift at 2500 is what feels abnormal. When I use the O/D button to shift it'll go directly to 2000 RPM and not hang at 2500 for a few seconds. (These RPMs are...

Yes, I've searched but previous threads didn't really mention my exact symptoms. The tranny in my 2000 3.4L 4WD 134K miles, has an issue shifting into overdrive and grabbing gear after decelerating. The best way I can describe it is a partial shift. - depending on acceleration, from 3rd to OD...

Looks like you're scraping the bottom of the barrel. That's fine for a beater, but it's gonna take some patience to avoid a money pit. You're going to encounter a lot of turds and shady people. I'd stay on the forums and look for someone jumping ship on the hobby who at least has some...

And "fore" is too close to foreskin. Use 4. :fro:

BrianSD_42 - thanks! I agree that gloss out of a can will never look quite right (at least on larger surface areas). Does that also hold for the auto-grade paint you refer to? My use of watered-down is imprecise; when I used the paint before it was thin and it didn't seem to get good coverage...