Transmission swap

1997 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE
209,000 MILES • V8 • AWD • AUTOMATIC
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MR.BRASHEAR
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I just replaced my transmission with a newly rebuilt one in my Jeep grand cherokee. it started up fine and i let it warm up then put it into nuetral and it was fine but when i put into drive it would surge and almost die every few seconds. Any ideas of what i did wrong?
Aug 13, 2011 at 9:34 PM
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MR.BRASHEAR
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well it was stuck in 4 lo when it was supposed to be in quadratrac. I pulled the lever down to nuetral and shifted through all the gears and it was fine idled great and reved. i think it might be the linkage any ideas?
Aug 13, 2011 at 11:32 PM
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JACOBANDNICKOLAS
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the linkage is the first thing I would check. You can actually reverse the shifter by not having the slide in the right position. Thus, lo becomes hi and the opposite.
Sep 5, 2011 at 10:17 PM
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