overdrive turns off after 10 minutes warm up any ideas?

Asked by Guru2K2FL Mar 01, 2020 at 08:12 PM about the 1998 Dodge RAM 1500 ST 4WD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

After 10 minutes of driving with overdrive
working perfectly it automatically shuts off
and then the transmission to hot light
comes on and no longer goes into overdrive
but has no other problems. For the life of me
I can not figure it out

3 Answers
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TDolby answered 4 years ago

Heat is the killer of a transmission and overdrive not working means you are either low on transmission fluid from a leak, and or you transmission needs a rebuilt. Have a shop perform a diagnosis on it.

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Guru2K2FL answered 4 years ago

Hi it's not leaking. And it shifts perfect when cold it goes into overdrive but once it gets a little warm kicks out. Could it be bad circulation? Like transmission oil cooler clogged?

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TDolby answered 4 years ago

My guess is the overdrive band is worn or burnt. To replace you have to open the transmission to replace, and when the shop is doing that, they will rebuild the whole transmission to warranty the work. for a 98 truck, my guess is you have over 100 to 150K miles, which is typical at this age to be rebuilding the transmission. So the question is, do you want to spend $2K fixing a 21 year old truck?

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