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Originally Posted by phyxer
"Off the line" constitutes a dead stop. Make sure you shift it into first gear. At a dead stop, drop your automatic shifter all the way into the lowest gear. Then you can either shift it back to drive or get ready to manually upshift. Normally just starting out in drive, they are in second.
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I highly doubt this...
but now that I think about it, my 79TD did this, I had to floor it to engage the downshift button to get it to start in first... something about the torque and the low rear gearing and eliminating idle creep at a stop light...