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Engine looses power and tranny wont shift

I have a 96 jeep cherokee sport i start it up and try to drive it and going down the road the engine bogs down and transmission doesnt shift. It will idle fine only when i start to drive it does this. Thanks dale

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  • rezballer_3 Feb 01, 2009

    hi i am trying to find out whats wrong with my grandma jeep cherokee it looses power some times and it over heats and it leaks water and i replace 2 hoese and it still leaks and now it leaks red stuff

  • Mike Butler
    Mike Butler May 11, 2010

    When was fuel filter last changed, if not for a while, that's a good place to start. Are you getting any trouble codes, check engine lights, service engine lights? may be smart to stop by autozone & have free scan done for codes then go from there.

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Transmission is likely reacting to poor engine performance. Check cap, rotor & wires...Check fuel filter (if they haven't been changed in a really long time, don't even look...just change them). If you find nothing unusual, check codes (if any)
I think you most likely have an ignition problem at this point but you have to do some "hands on" checking to determine what's going on...
Good luck

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