Re: new guy Tranny ?

From: JHarmon (jdharmon@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Dec 26 1999 - 16:04:17 EST


You can easily take a A518 46RE trans and put the 47RE gears in it. That will
handle any amount of hp and torque you put out. BTW - if you are going to put
out the $$ for a SC (Kenne Bell) get a good one (ProCharger) for $3500.
Jim
DACUDA

Chris and Sara wrote:

> Hi, I joined this list just prior to going on a 3 month trip. So now I
> am trying to catch up on about 105 grouped mailings. I have a 97 4x4 that
> you can see at http://pages.prodigy.net/rile1/!!!DakotaMadness!!!/ . It's
> been a little while (3 months) since I've put it up so I haven't had a
> chance to update it.
> Anyway just before I left I was looking into a Kenne Bell Supercharger
> setup like the one that Performance West was putting on the Killer Bee Daks.
> When I talked to the guys at PW, they said they don't make the setup for
> 5.2L's.
> "Why?", I asked.
> He told me that the problem was with the transmissions that come with
> the 5.2L's. They can't handle the power. I had no idea. So it's been a
> few months, and I'm at 35K mi. and now going uphill, my tranny is doing
> some intermittent kicking down at ~4400 RPM. Does any one know of some
> TSB's out about problems with these 'inferior' transmissions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> CR in the NW



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