Its so sad now re learning or teaching kids to FIX and or work/modify equipment...My "other" truck is a 96 I ordered in Nov 1995, exactly how what I wanted (except OBD 2)... 412,000 miles, over 100,000 towing a gooseneck trailer with doziers or 580 2 or 4wd backhoes to Pensacola area from...
Wow, Inline 6 with more ci's..
Wouldn't that be awesome...:)! IF the 3.0 eco could be manually shifted, I'm betting lots less issues...(and EGR delete etc, of course;)!
Its cool when I find other mechaniks (or in your case maybe mechanics:) hehe, I started broke, so HAD to meckanick my way to...
I think its also a lugging issue. Even the Cummins engines had/have issues when towing heavy, and people short shifted heavy loaded engines. The FOA download says its also related to high load/low rpm issues. I think it even (to me) wanted to reprogram the ecu to shift out of this when operated...