You actually have a six speed, it only uses 5 at a time.
It will skip 2nd at times and go to 3rd....then on up the chain.
Hope this helps

 

My tranny never skips gears when shifting

 

whoa whoa whoa so what you are tryin to get me to believe is that say you have an F350 with the bed loaded down to max and you're pulling a trailer. You know enough to put a load on the drivetrain on accelleration you the trans will skip shift?? either 2nd or 4th? Whichever it wants at the time? Where did you hear about the 6 speed tranny?

 

It will only skip on extremely light acceleration, when pulling it will go, 1,2,3,4,5,

 

sorry Tim but mine doesn't.

 

This is word for word out of the 2003.25 Super/Duty New Model Technician Training manual.20-Nov-02

The TorqShift has a six-gear ratio capability, with electronics control by a power train control module (PCM) that provides a different combination of shifts below or above software-calibrated temperature.

Shifts have 1-2-3-4-6 pattern below 17c
Shifts have a 1-2-3-5-6 pattern above 14c


Want or need the ratios?

 

Honest it does.........

 

So then what are all six ratios? Fourth and fifth must be real close.

 

1-3.090
2-2.200
3-1.538
4-1.096
5-1.000
6-0.712

go back quick gear 2.880

 

They should have made fourth 1.25 and had a real six speed auto. Then dodge would only be 20 years behind, and gm 10!

 

mine has never even come close to smoking the tires its a dog off the line until the turbo kicks in 10 ft down the road

 

yes i agree they are very quick to get you to jump into arbitration they wanted me to after the 2nd trip in to fix the fumes in the cab problem

 

Yeah that's right! Darn near smoke the tires...And if there is a hint of moisture on the road in the morning and I'm running late....wheel hop lots of wheel hop. I'm in the process of custom fabbing a set of chrom-moly tube traction bars on some 7/8 heims with a buddy of mine to take care of that problem. If it hops like that now I could only imagine what it'll be like with say a superchips programmer set to 150 horse!

 

Put both hands on the wheel and keep correcting

 

Yeah...I hear what you're saying King Ranch! Lifting off the throttle is a last resort