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The typical symptom is initial failure to engage or fully engage at crank up after being parked for ca. 8+ hrs sometimes associated with a nasty feeling hard engine stall and a CEL that goes away after like 3 good drive cycles. If that's what you are experiencing try this - crank up; shift to neutral; hold rpms at ca. 1,000-1,500 for 10 seconds or so; shift into gear and drive off (if there is any hesitation at drive off repeat high idle in neutral cycle) - if that "cures" your problem it's tranny fluid drain back.
Common cure is transmission service with ATF+4 and new Mopar or Wix (no good deal filters off eBay) should fix the problem but not always. Some have had to install the tranny pump part of the Transgo kit or the new style Mopar tranny pump to cure the problem but both of this steps involve dropping the tranny.
FYI this is not a new DCJ issue as I first experienced this in a 1st gen Plymouth minivan back in the day. In fact if you regularly do the idle in neutral fix noted above you can drive without harming anything until it's time for normal tranny service like I did for ca. 20K miles at which point SunCoast installed my new torque converter and said the tranny clutch packs still looked brand new.
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Sold to LOST member my 05 Ltd, GDE Stg II turbo + TCM tune, SunCoast TC w. Transgo kit, Steiger window regulators, Samcos, Fumoto valve, 2nd gen filter head with Lub. Spec. bleeder, Hayden clutch & 11 blade fan, inverted spare, P-1 battery, BF Goodrich Long Trail TAs, Etecno1 glow plugs, timing belt at 50K miles/8 yrs
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