Well, not looking to start a fight here, but....
Although my tranny has not failed (yet) at about 89,000 miles or so, the
tranbsfer case had to be rebuilt and even as we speak the OD unit is being
rebuilt.....The sun gear assembly (a $600 part by itself) is trashed......
Along with the clutches, etc.
Dont get me wrong, I use the truck pretty hard. But IMHO the OD on a modern
vehicle should not fail after only 80,000 miles......
At 09:30 AM 2/23/98 -0600, you wrote:
>On 2/23/98, at 9:20 AM, Joe Borg wrote:
>
>>I am forwarding this to the list for comments: Joe
>>
>>I have never seen one
>>go more than 80,000 miles, although I am sure that some do.
>
>Mine's got 70,000 + on the ticker, guess it's gonna fall out soon. What a
>bunch of crap!
>
>
>>I work on "stock" vehicles, so I cannot tell you how they hold up under
>>drag racing conditions, but, since lockup does not come on, during full
>>throttle settings, it should not be hard on the transmission.
>>
>>
>
>Well mine's stock and I drive on the street like it's a drag strip. My
>truck has been hammered on since day one, hard downshifts to first, nice
>bark out of the tires..... no problems yet. Shifts the same as it always
>has. I haven't even had any overdrive related problems. I guess you also
>got to realize that this guy doesn't see a tranny unless it has a problem.
>Maybe that's why he is so dead set against the 518????
>
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