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<p>[QUOTE="EHB, post: 3945694, member: 64328"]Found this post from June 27,2007</p><p><br /></p><p>looks like this is a very common problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>[h=1]Thread: <a href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html">Eaton Ultra Shift on Volvo, Pete, & KW</a>[/h]</p><p><a href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html">http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">06.27.2007<p style="text-align: right"><a href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html#post190592" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html#post190592">#1</a></p><p></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/members/3518-truckin-juggalo/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/members/3518-truckin-juggalo/">Truckin Juggalo</a> </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><img src="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/images/truckers/statusicon/user-offline.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial">Medium Load Member<img src="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/images/ranks/3stars.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><a href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/members/3518-truckin-juggalo/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/members/3518-truckin-juggalo/"><img src="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/customavatars/avatar3518_5.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>Member SinceAug 2006LocationMadisonville, TNTrucker?8 YearsAge31Posts340Thanks0Thanked: 23 Times</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">[h=2]Eaton Ultra Shift on Volvo, Pete, & KW[/h]<blockquote><p>I am Currently driving a Vovlo VNL 780 with a Auto Shift transmission i have</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">Eaton Fuller Ultra Shift</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">Its the one without the Clutch just break and Gas</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">Has Push Button R,N,D,Manual,L</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">and if you have one of these let me and experience this problem i am going to post the problem and tell you what can fix it..</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">My Truck has a Difficult time going into Neutral like if you Pull into a fuel island and stop then put it in neutral it will beep at you, Sometimes it goes into neutral and when u turn the truck back on it will beep at you like it wasnt placed into neutral (which takes upwards of 30 minutes to get it started)</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">It's incapable of Automatically shifting in City Traffic </font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">what i mean is it misses Every Up shift and Down Shift just keeps Revving but never goes into Gear, you have to manually shift engine for it to work and run your RPM's at 20 in each gear for it to take the next Gear</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">Has problem on Take off at 4,5,6,7 gears mainly 5,6 Gears Engine Keeps Revving but Transmission never goes into gear</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">On the Down shift it doesn't down shift until about 7 rpm's and it SLAMS into 9th gear and Jerks the hell out of the truck like you just been rear ended</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">It has a problem going into R and D (1,2 gear) it just keeps flashing the number in the Display and takes 20-60 seconds or more to go into gear </font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">IF you get it to go into Gear you press the Gas and it slips out of gear jumps 2-3 RPM's and SLAMS back into gear and Jerks the truck.. OR falls into Neutral</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">Trouble Shooting</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">-Check Fuel Filter Level if over 1/2 way full drain to 2 inches from the bottom</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">-Drain Air tanks DAILY</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">-Load Test Batteries Replace any bad battery they send Confusing signals to ECM</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">-If Problem Persists the next thing i found out was that i a Faulty Transmission Wiring Harness and had it Replaced which cured most of the problems </font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">-RANGE CONTROL SENSOR! is the key that will be replaced next week im driving it as is to make money till i go on hometime</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana">I talked to a Transmission Mechanic and they told me that thing goes out alot on the Eaton Transmissions... and that you will Never Run into that problem on a Freightliner just on the Volvo's, Pete's and KW's that have the pushbutton set up Freightliner uses Smartshift and operantly they figured out how to fix that problem..</p></blockquote><p></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"><p><img src="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/signaturepics/sigpic3518_1.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"></p></blockquote><p></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #343434"><font face="Arial"></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EHB, post: 3945694, member: 64328"]Found this post from June 27,2007 looks like this is a very common problem. [h=1]Thread: [URL="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html"]Eaton Ultra Shift on Volvo, Pete, & KW[/URL][/h] [url]http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html[/url] [COLOR=#FFFFFF]06.27.2007[RIGHT][URL="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucks-eighteen-wheelers/23537-eaton-ultra-shift-volvo-pete-kw.html#post190592"]#1[/URL][/RIGHT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#343434][FONT=Arial][URL="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/members/3518-truckin-juggalo/"]Truckin Juggalo[/URL] [IMG]http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/images/truckers/statusicon/user-offline.png[/IMG] Medium Load Member[IMG]http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/images/ranks/3stars.gif[/IMG][URL="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/members/3518-truckin-juggalo/"][IMG]http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/customavatars/avatar3518_5.gif[/IMG][/URL]Member SinceAug 2006LocationMadisonville, TNTrucker?8 YearsAge31Posts340Thanks0Thanked: 23 Times [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana][h=2]Eaton Ultra Shift on Volvo, Pete, & KW[/h][INDENT]I am Currently driving a Vovlo VNL 780 with a Auto Shift transmission i have Eaton Fuller Ultra Shift Its the one without the Clutch just break and Gas Has Push Button R,N,D,Manual,L and if you have one of these let me and experience this problem i am going to post the problem and tell you what can fix it.. My Truck has a Difficult time going into Neutral like if you Pull into a fuel island and stop then put it in neutral it will beep at you, Sometimes it goes into neutral and when u turn the truck back on it will beep at you like it wasnt placed into neutral (which takes upwards of 30 minutes to get it started) It's incapable of Automatically shifting in City Traffic what i mean is it misses Every Up shift and Down Shift just keeps Revving but never goes into Gear, you have to manually shift engine for it to work and run your RPM's at 20 in each gear for it to take the next Gear Has problem on Take off at 4,5,6,7 gears mainly 5,6 Gears Engine Keeps Revving but Transmission never goes into gear On the Down shift it doesn't down shift until about 7 rpm's and it SLAMS into 9th gear and Jerks the hell out of the truck like you just been rear ended It has a problem going into R and D (1,2 gear) it just keeps flashing the number in the Display and takes 20-60 seconds or more to go into gear IF you get it to go into Gear you press the Gas and it slips out of gear jumps 2-3 RPM's and SLAMS back into gear and Jerks the truck.. OR falls into Neutral Trouble Shooting -Check Fuel Filter Level if over 1/2 way full drain to 2 inches from the bottom -Drain Air tanks DAILY -Load Test Batteries Replace any bad battery they send Confusing signals to ECM -If Problem Persists the next thing i found out was that i a Faulty Transmission Wiring Harness and had it Replaced which cured most of the problems -RANGE CONTROL SENSOR! is the key that will be replaced next week im driving it as is to make money till i go on hometime I talked to a Transmission Mechanic and they told me that thing goes out alot on the Eaton Transmissions... and that you will Never Run into that problem on a Freightliner just on the Volvo's, Pete's and KW's that have the pushbutton set up Freightliner uses Smartshift and operantly they figured out how to fix that problem..[/INDENT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [INDENT][IMG]http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/signaturepics/sigpic3518_1.gif[/IMG] [/INDENT] [/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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