YNOWGN

Currently having my trans built and was thinking that the one thing I hate the most about it, it always starts in 1st gear. Is there a controller that will either lock it into 2nd, or allow it to start off in whatever gear chosen on the selector? This drives me crazy when crawling!

Sixty4x4

I would say you need to find someone that has cracked the Jeep source codes and go from there. There are shift point programmers out there like Superchips but never seen a manual conversion box available. Not sure if you can have manual valve bodies, similar from the past, installed or if they even exist. Starting in first gear is good because that is the gear designed to take the starting load from standstill. My Chev has a 4.6:1 1st gear and always starts there but only stays there for a couple of seconds then 2nd is engaged and even in low range.

YNOWGN

there are a lot of times, when climbing, 1st gear is too much torque causing the tires to break loose. Just wish I could start in 2nd sometimes, but yeah, I can’t find anything either.

Sixty4x4

My 3.8 (after I removed and sold and found out it was rebuilt) never exhibited too much torque for takeoff and my current 355HP/385Tq Chev engine does not either even in 1st low range. Have you got a pedal commander on there that is opening the throttle too fast?

YNOWGN

No, I actually bought a pedal commander just for the purpose of dialing down the throttle, but I couldn’t get it to work without throwing throttle codes so I removed it. With 5.13 gears in 4lo it’s plenty torquey and I find myself doing a lot of 2 foot driving to keep from lunging and breaking traction. It’s only on really steep stuff, so it’s not that big of a deal, I just didn’t know if someone had a programming or something that would help.