Weird Acceleration Trouble!??

Hey all TW friends!!!

i have a question that some of you might have encountered or heard of or are just geniuses (Chris4X4..)

I have an 07 4.0 V6 4X4 Double Cab with a 6Speed Manual trans.

In the past month or two i have been having some weird troubles with my acceleration...what happens is i will be cruising say at 50 mph and in 5th or 6th gear and i will accelrate, not really hard, but hard enough..prolly about 3/4ths the way down on the throttle and the rpms will shoot up to 3-4,000 and stay there but the truck will only go faster really slowly...like the wheels are only matching slightly above the previous acceleration and then they will gradually lower a bit to match the trucks speed once it gets faster which takes forever...

its almost as if the gears are disengaging a little under more than 1/2 acceleration, like i am pushing in the clutch a little but i am not...and it does this in ALL gears...so if i accelerate hardish the rpms will go up really quick but the truck will only go faster very slowly...like it is trying to catch up... it is really bothering me because i know it shouldn't be doing this

i am prolly going to take it in to the dealer tomorrow but i wanted some input so i have some ammo if they start bs-ing me

THANKS

 

can nobody help!?

someone must have some sort of idea..puhleassse

this is really starting to worry me

 

Clutch slippage?
My 2010 doesn't do that when I put the hammer down. It just goes. I have the 6 speed tranny also.
I'd have the dealer take a look at it.

 

How many miles on your clutch? What you describe is usually the very first sign that a clutch is worn out.

 

i agree, sounds like your clutch is shot

 

Yep, sounds like your clutch.

 

time to replace the clutch

 

Prob. the clutch slipping.

 

Also, if you keep running with the old clutch this will soon progress to slip down to the lower gears one at a time.... until ultimately truck no go.

 

Agreed about the clutch. Fortunately, this shoud be covered under the powertrain warranty.

My questions, since I have the auto, is the clutch adjusable to fix the slipping problem?

 

Sounds like the clutch and it's a wear item. Not under warranty. You can try dealer but? With all the other 6 speed problems I've read about please keep us posted on the results. If I have to do mine I'll definitely upgrade the clutch. I think the stock one is too weak for a truck.

 

it better be covered..i only got this truck about 4 months ago!!!

but thanks for allk the replies...i thought it might be the clutch but i wanted to be sure