Thanks for all your help,George.Yeah, Scott's a great guy and has helped me
and my friend out on so many things.I will probably get the tranny replaced
over christmas break,if they can get one in.The last one I helped them do,
it took over 2 months just for the tranny to show up.I am not going to pull
it apart until I have another one ready to go.I will leave the mopar fluid
in it and probably not even bother changing it at 10K, like I had planned.I
will fill the new one with mopar lube and will run it until I have a
problem.Geez, it used to be if you went to buy a truck,you got an automatic
for convenience or laziness purposes,knowing that it would almost never
outlast the motor and would have to be rebuilt.You got a manual if you
wanted a real pulling truck and knew that unless you burnt up the clutch,you
wouldn't ever have transmission problems.Times have changed! Today's
automatics are better and more reliable than ever, and manual transmissions
aren't built like they used to be.
Will Coughlin willcoughlin@hotmail.com
'00 reg.cab,2wd,4.7L/hd5-spd/3.92sg(9.25")
1ST place Dakota-truck at 11th annual Houston Mopar show and race/National
DML meet!!
----Original Message Follows----
From: "George S Willhite" <gswillhite@ualr.edu>
Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Subject: DML: Re:was 5-spds,now dealer service/5-spds
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:59:15 -0800
Will, I envy your relationship with the service writer/manager. The
gearbox does sound defective, so, by all means if you can have them
replace the transmission do it. Definately keep the stock Mopar fluid
in there until its all settled. Get some mileage and confidence in the new
tranny before changing over to another fluid. Of the 41k miles on my
truck, 20K is with the 50/50.
George
>>Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:04:33 -0600
From: "Will Coughlin" <willcoughlin@hotmail.com>
Subject: DML:was 5-spds,now dealer service/5-spds
To be honest with you, I'm not really sure that they ever messed with it.All
I am going on there is the articles I read on the '00 quad cabs in which one
of the features/upgrades/improvements listed was "greater shift refinement
can be found with the 5-spd".I personally think that this is something
chrysler just stuck that in there because it sounded good and that the new
4.7L motor is different to drive with the 5-spd, so they could pass it off
as an improvement.Yours will take 2nd at 50-60 mph? Wow,mine won't even take
3rd and would whine a little at taking 4th at those speeds.I have driven all
kinds of trucks and tractors for a long time and I'm telling you, it jus
doesn't want to go into reverse sometimes after that trip.I've tried
double-clutching,holding the shifter against the reverse synchro and easing
out the clutch,and no go.My dodge service is something special.2 of my good
friends work down at the dodge dealer.One works the parts counter,and the
other is an appointent maker/your car's finished phone call making
guy.Anyway, Scott,the service writer/manager down there told me "I don't
care if you blow the SOB up on nitrous,bring it back and I will fix it" Now
that's service! Scott's a great guy and he is serious about helping me
out.My best friend has a '99 silverado-5.3,4L60E,3.73 gear reg.cab 2wd.We
put a power programmer,airaid,throttle body,mass-air sensor,true
duals,lowered 4/6,etc.Nice truck,but the egr valve went out one day.We took
it down and left it with Scott(he doesn't let anybody else drive our trucks
when they are there,since we both have really nice vehicles and they never
come in there dirty).He called us on my cell phone within the hour!!(this is
not uncommon for us, he usually has in&out within a few hours even with no
appointment) and said "ok, it's done".I took Brad back down there.Scott took
us back in the service area,showed us the old valve,showed us the work they
had performed(he only lets the senior tech work on our trucks,no rookies).We
said great, thanks! Brad cranked his truck up,it had 0.1 more miles on it
than when we left, but the check engine light was still on.He jumped out and
asked Scott-"hey, what's this?" Scott said "Don't you have the computer
reprogrammed with a power programmer? We didn't reset the mil or computer to
avoid messing up your custom settings." Now that's COOL! So,I went and got
the programmer from his house,brought it back and we offloaded the custom
program,saved it, let them reset what they had to,and reprogrammed it right
there in the freaking service bay! So,anyway, about the warranty issues with
different fluid? I don't think I will have any.Do you recommend going 50/50
or should I go full redline? I will be back home the 15th or so of
december,so I will probably get Scott to go ahead and just swap my tranny
out.Oh yeah, another thing,he lets me& Brad help work on our trucks.I just
hang out down at the shop sometimes.I have helped put 4 of these trannys
in,so I know how it goes.Can do it in about 1 hr now.If it does get
replaced,I will be replacing that T/O bearing!<<
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