“ That was a chicken little post “ and comments like that is one of the main reasons technical builders like DTT no longer put up posts anymore or get as involved with technical threads that so many of you have told us you found helpful in the past.
For those of you that may not already be aware of what this is about I will clarify. I was not going to get involved in this post as I KNOW that your truck was a 2005 and this did not apply to you so you were ok.
As it is apparent that there are a few of you out there that may not be aware of why this post was initially put up a few years ago I will tell you.
If you look at the post you will note it was dated February 5,2004. As DTT head office is also the teaching facility and tech support for our builder base we see and hear a lot of commonalties before a lot of the other after market that ship out full units to their dealers.
As soon as we saw the design changes we knew there were going to be issues and it was soon confirmed by our dealer base who were also seeing the same thing nation wide .
The post was put up to warn the customers that had these units that there had been a design change by Dodge that we felt did not make sense and we were seeing the issues that were coming up as a result.
We did not have to point it out to anyone and could have remained quiet and helped out only our own customer base. We thought it was important enough of a design issue to warn people about even though we were also educating our competitors in the process.
For awhile we were even accused by the other aftermarket vendors of creating a fix for monetary purposes only. All of that we took in stride because we knew better and implemented changes in our units.
The R&D facility for Chrysler called Bill several times and asked us to forward our data to them as they were working on a fix for it. We did so a couple of times at their request and they made several washer changes that are now implemented in the 2005 trucks. For those of you builders reading this , you will remember there were a few part number changes for the washer system until they finalized it.
So that is it in a nutshell. The sad thing here is “ CHICKEN LITTLE “ as it was not only pointed put the issue but addressed it and gave Chrysler data so they too could get on it.
NGM Diesel and MCummings are giving transmission advice based on personal opinion that will undoubtedly cost you guys money. Believe whatever you guys want.
Bottom line they should have told you right away that your transmission was already updated and not to worry , they should have known that . What do they bring in the way of technical expertise I can only guess.
To the table DTT brings 28 years of technical expertise and experience. We re – designed the internals of this transmission to give you guys the longevity you were looking for it did not happen by magic. Just to name a few of these items you may recognise that have changed the industry are things like Billet Shafts, Billet Pistons, Billet Servos, Billet Accumulator, Billet 3rd gear piston, special sealing rings, voltage regulators, noise filters.
We designed this stuff because we understand how they work, to some of you that still makes a difference .
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