Recent Content by SamuelColt

Might be just my experience but I bought the NAPA unit. After a half hour of messing with it I gave up, couldn't get it to fit. When I compared it to the OE unit the casting was a fraction wider and it interfered with the block casting. Bought an OE unit and I was up and running in 5 minutes...

Do you use an EB? How much are you towing? Any mountain towing? Thanks!

Interesting conversation with Goerend. Basically he advised against a VB with the standard torque converter. Said the pressures would tear up a stock TC. He DID say that you could put a lock up switch in for low speed towing to keep the temps down. I've seen how to do that elsewhere on the...

Thanks for the feedback and I'll check that out. I don't know what is actually going on in the TC and this is my first EB so I don't have a good frame of reference but if I'm going down hill and it's in tow haul and I activate the EB I definitely feel it slowing, but it releases at ~41 mph (as...

At a minimum it requires a shift kit to ramp pressures to adequately handle the extra stresses generated at closed throttle. Once you upgrade the transmission that is probably adequate in most cases, the exception would over weights and long usage times. The one thing that I cannot verify is...