"Josh Battles" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com> wrote:
[...]
: No more new venture transmissions?
: "A Getrag six-speed-manual transmission is standard on trucks with the
: 3.7-liter and base 4.7-liter engines"
: New Venture Gear makes a nice trans, but some of the Getrag units that I've
: come across in the past have been very nice. Hopefully the ones in the
: trucks will be at least as durable as the ones from NVG have proved
: themselves to be.
Yeah, it kind've sucks to see the NVG going away - I wonder if
they still make the transfer case? The 3000GT VR-4 I traded in
on my '96 Dak had a Getrag 5-speed. Its supposed to be a sealed
case and thus non-serviceable. Supposedly the SOP for fixing
transmission problems was to trash can the old tranny and pop
a new one in there, at a cost of $6K or so. That's one of the
reasons I started to think about moving on to another vehicle when
the warranty expired. ;-)
Hopefully this won't be the case with the Dak though, for
future GenIV owners' sakes.
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-Jon-
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