Weird.... My NV3500 sounded like an old manual geared
school bus...when new, and has gotten a lot quieter over
the last 100,000 miles. I have rear end/trans noise now...
but nothing I wouldn't expect after the use/abuse my truck's
put through.
Are these being rebuilt? or replaced? If rebuilt (at least the
first one) I'd suspect a bad rebuild (and an unfortunate 'brake'
with the original trans.)
Sam '95 SLT
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Ostrowski <dogdak@hotmail.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Friday, December 18, 1998 10:29 PM
Subject: DML: NV-3500 5-speed
>I just got my 97 dak back from the dealer with another new NV-3500
>5-speed trans. Anyway this time I sheered the main gear on the input
>shaft and the main gear on the counter shaft, both of these gears are
>always meshed except when in neutral. And the first time the trans went
>I simply broke the main input shaft. I know many of you have had great
>luck with this 5-speed behind the 5.2, but I havn't, I hope this next
>one changes that. In defense of the NV-3500 this new one has allot less
>gear whine in first & second. Not sure why the first one went at 11K,
>but I think the second one was a lemon trans because of excessive gear
>whine even when new. I run a stock 5.2 so I find it hard to think I
>should be shearing input shafts and main gears. Anyway this is just an
>update, it feels great to be driving the dak again....
>
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