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Originally Posted by rule1110
I ended up paying the shop to replace my thermostat as I wasn't confident doing it all myself. It fixed the running cool issue as now heats up to 88 degrees pretty quick and stays there.
I meant to ask how do you drive to avoid the 2-1 hard downshift? Sometimes it doesn't do it but I haven't figured out how to not do it more often than not.
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Glad to hear the thermo replacement fixed the cold running.
My 6HP26 transmission only gives the hard 2-1 shift if I'm rolling to a stop with little or no load on the driveline - like rolling up to a stop light or moving at a snails-pace very near stopping, like in very slow traffic. If I pull up briskly it's fine. So I avoid rolling stops - I slow down and stop smartly, instead of creeping. In slow traffic, if my speed falls to the point where I know I'm going to get the jolt, I just dab the brakes and come to a full stop. The shift to first then happens with the car stopped and there's no jolt.
It's easy to do and becomes second-nature after a few days...
