I keep feeling a slight tug when driving

[Yorkie3621]

Weird thing keeps happening.
I’m driving along and every second or two I feel a slight tug on the Jeep. It’s like the brakes are catching, but they’re not. No noise, just a soft tug for a moment and it repeats every couple of seconds. It doesn’t happen if I’m accelerating, just seems to happen when I’m cruising along.

What’s strange is if I move it from automatic into manual mode and put it up and down a gear and then back to automatic, it stops happening. This is the second time it’s done this, last time was 2k miles ago and I thought it was possibly bad gas. I didn’t do the transmission to manual and back then, it just stopped on its own.

No lights on the dash except service stop/start system, which is probably the stop/start battery, I leave it alone because it saves me having to turn it off anyway.

3.6L. 2018 JLU. 60k miles. Just serviced trans/transfer/diffs, but it’s not those as it happened once before I did those anyway, and they were serviced 2k miles ago.

Thanks a lot

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[garyji]

Going by the title, I was going to say get a new girlfriend . . . Tugs should not be slight!!

G.

 

[Yorkie3621]

Going by the title, I was going to say get a new girlfriend . . . Tugs should not be slight!!

G.

🫣

 

[73TAWM]

The title got me thinking about my Jeep Bunny. Love those jeep tugs on the road.

 

[roaniecowpony]

Disable your stability control and traction control, then drive it.

 

[MitsJeep]

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/slight-surging-when-at-steady-speed.116914/

 

[MitsJeep]

In my opinion, it doesnt have anything to do with the transmission. But I could be wrong.

 

[Grey24Rubi]

Going by the title, I was going to say get a new girlfriend . . . Tugs should not be slight!!

G.

I was going to suggest try driving with, BOTH, hands on the wheel.

 

[Yorkie3621]

I was going to suggest try driving with, BOTH, hands on the wheel.

 

[Boomerang]

Weird thing keeps happening.
I’m driving along and every second or two I feel a slight tug on the Jeep. It’s like the brakes are catching, but they’re not. No noise, just a soft tug for a moment and it repeats every couple of seconds. It doesn’t happen if I’m accelerating, just seems to happen when I’m cruising along.

What’s strange is if I move it from automatic into manual mode and put it up and down a gear and then back to automatic, it stops happening. This is the second time it’s done this, last time was 2k miles ago and I thought it was possibly bad gas. I didn’t do the transmission to manual and back then, it just stopped on its own.

No lights on the dash except service stop/start system, which is probably the stop/start battery, I leave it alone because it saves me having to turn it off anyway.

3.6L. 2018 JLU. 60k miles. Just serviced trans/transfer/diffs, but it’s not those as it happened once before I did those anyway, and they were serviced 2k miles ago.

Thanks a lot

Hey, that's weird! Sounds like the transmission or drivetrain might be acting up. Since it stops when you shift into manual and back, it's probably not the brakes. Could be related to the stop/start system, but that's just a guess. Since you just had the trans/transfer/diffs serviced, I'd take it back to the shop and have them take a closer look. Maybe they can reproduce the issue and figure out what's going on.

 

[Jeepjoy]

Take a look at this thread

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...slight-hesitation.125134/page-28#post-2966260

 

[PrimeTimeRubicon]

Weird thing keeps happening.
I’m driving along and every second or two I feel a slight tug on the Jeep. It’s like the brakes are catching, but they’re not. No noise, just a soft tug for a moment and it repeats every couple of seconds. It doesn’t happen if I’m accelerating, just seems to happen when I’m cruising along.

What’s strange is if I move it from automatic into manual mode and put it up and down a gear and then back to automatic, it stops happening. This is the second time it’s done this, last time was 2k miles ago and I thought it was possibly bad gas. I didn’t do the transmission to manual and back then, it just stopped on its own.

No lights on the dash except service stop/start system, which is probably the stop/start battery, I leave it alone because it saves me having to turn it off anyway.

3.6L. 2018 JLU. 60k miles. Just serviced trans/transfer/diffs, but it’s not those as it happened once before I did those anyway, and they were serviced 2k miles ago.

Thanks a lot

What RPM range are you cruising at when this happens? Also, how much throttle are you giving it, just barely touching the gas pedal or in it a bit more? Flat road or up or down a hill or even slight in/decline?

 

[Bob Burd]

You resurrected a year-old thread.

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