AISIN gear hunting in Cruise Control

[Cummins2014]

"And was my comment a reply to to you? NO!"

HA, seems it's all about him!

I could say the same about you, but I'm sure they know. Its just tiresome ," you and the KING, thats fitting" , if isn't your way its the highway.

 

[Cummins2014]

And you have owned an Aisin and a 68RFE?

No, and apparently you have never towed with a 68RFE, and 3:42, why pretend you do . I don't pretend to know how the Aisin is , get it .

 

[RVTRKN]

To clarify my opinion, I guess I’m too harsh on the 68rfe, it works for a lot of owners. A buddy of mine has a 2014 2500 Mega Cab and he loves his. My experience with it was horrible, and I should consider that. But it doesn’t change the fact I’ll never buy one.

 

[kthaxton]

The rear diff completely disintegrated at 14K miles and other issues.

....but as you only recently admitted, the dif disintegrating had nothing to do with the gear ratio, and certainly nothing to do with the trans.

 

[RVTRKN]

In 2015 my opinion was 3:42 is a terrible ratio as it is today, according to the repairing tech it was the diff tubes not in square with pumpkin. I believe I posted that way back then.

 

[SnoKing]

No, and apparently you have never towed with a 68RFE, and 3:42, why pretend you do . I don't pretend to know how the Aisin is , get it .

I knew I was going in the end be towing close to the max for a SRW 3500 and wanted the lower starting gears of the Aisin. Being our third RAM, I new exactly what I wanted in this truck. No sun roof, pucks, leafs, as air was pretty new, full console with buckets. I could have bought a truck locally with a 68RFE. However with no time to order a new truck with Aisin and be able to leave for Az on schedule we bought the 2015(Friday 9-18-2015) on the internet paying for it via wire transfer before we ever saw it and flew to Denver on a Sunday(had air miles to go first class), and stayed in a motel at the airport having a nice dinner at a sports bar.

Monday morning the internet sales lady picked us up at the airport motel and drove us to John Elway's Greeley dealership. We finish the paper work, bought a Maxcare 8/120 warranty(took a while to get them down close internet price), the puck set and in-bed 7 pin/wiring kit. The truck we bought lacked the pucks and had Nav that was not on our list, everything else was spot on. Sales lady helped set up our phones on bluetooth, gave us a tour of the Nav system and other controls, and had the fuel/DEF tanks filled for us, as she knew we were headed out of a 1350 mile trip home.

It was a great adventure and we high five'd each other repeatedly for the next 48 hours driving it back to the NW, we had just replace our boat of 19 years with a new RAM and had I bit of cash left over in our pocket. To top that off someone agreed to purchase the 2001.5 before we made it home, after seeing my post on this forum.

We got what we wanted and you evidently have what you wanted. Cheers!

 

[SnoKing]

....but as you only recently admitted, the dif disintegrating had nothing to do with the gear ratio, and certainly nothing to do with the trans.

I never thought about ring gear tooth size until someone posted about the 3.42's having larger teeth than the 4.10's.

I think the new 3.73 ratio for SRW trucks is great for people that get a 68RFE truck, "think" all 2500's and non Aisin 3500's.

 

[Cummins2014]

To clarify my opinion, I guess I’m too harsh on the 68rfe, it works for a lot of owners. A buddy of mine has a 2014 2500 Mega Cab and he loves his. My experience with it was horrible, and I should consider that. But it doesn’t change the fact I’ll never buy one.

Here is a hypothetical for you , what if that truck had the Aisin, and had all those issues ,now where do you stand ? See my point, now what , you would never buy the Aisin ?? I don't have a clue to your point, never buy the 68RFE because of the problems of that one truck, or you prefer the Aisin for the reasons many pay the extra, frequent heavy towing , needing those two lower gears to get that big load moving, more robust for heavy loads. Or do you want one to go get groceries , which wouldn't make sense .

I tow, lets round up to 13,500 , not frequent, truck has been awesome with the 68RFE. That transmission as given me zero issues, didn't care at all for the shifting at first, especially towing, and the down shifting, its settled down now. As they say its a learning transmission, and all I can say is that its learned to behave itself

 

[Cummins2014]

I knew I was going in the end be towing close to the max for a SRW 3500 and wanted the lower starting gears of the Aisin. Being our third RAM, I new exactly what I wanted in this truck. No sun roof, pucks, leafs, as air was pretty new, full console with buckets. I could have bought a truck locally with a 68RFE. However with no time to order a new truck with Aisin and be able to leave for Az on schedule we bought the 2015(Friday 9-18-2015) on the internet paying for it via wire transfer before we ever saw it and flew to Denver on a Sunday(had air miles to go first class), and stayed in a motel at the airport having a nice dinner at a sports bar.

Monday morning the internet sales lady picked us up at the airport motel and drove us to John Elway's Greeley dealership. We finish the paper work, bought a Maxcare 8/120 warranty(took a while to get them down close internet price), the puck set and in-bed 7 pin/wiring kit. The truck we bought lacked the pucks and had Nav that was not on our list, everything else was spot on. Sales lady helped set up our phones on bluetooth, gave us a tour of the Nav system and other controls, and had the fuel/DEF tanks filled for us, as she knew we were headed out of a 1350 mile trip home.

It was a great adventure and we high five'd each other repeatedly for the next 48 hours driving it back to the NW, we had just replace our boat of 19 years with a new RAM and had I bit of cash left over in our pocket. To top that off someone agreed to purchase the 2001.5 before we made it home, after seeing my post on this forum.

We got what we wanted and you evidently have what you wanted. Cheers!

Evidently !!!

 

[Cummins2014]

In 2015 my opinion was 3:42 is a terrible ratio as it is today, according to the repairing tech it was the diff tubes not in square with pumpkin. I believe I posted that way back then.

Well you know how opinions are everyone has one Its not something to argue about, the only downside I see with 3:42 ,and the 68RFE is the lower speeds ,and being in too high a gear ,and it lugs, thats annoying to me. I will either lock it in 3rd or 4th around town ,or just use TH, that works okay. Thats it for me. Towing with tow haul ,no complaints . Its hold the gears a bit longer, and I don't see any issue getting up to speed .

 

[SnoKing]

Does someone have a little illness?

 

[Cummins12V98]

Does someone have a little illness?
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NICE!!!

 

[NonFord]

I have a Lance 855S (about 4200 lbs loaded) I slide in the bed and when I'm in cruise at around 75, I occasionally get the drop down to 5 and then to 6, sometimes like only for a second or two, never drops lower than 5. Then when going up hills it holds 6th thinking it should drop to climb. I scratch my head on it, but the temp doesn't even budge, I am mostly at 167 for my transmission temp, once in a while to 173 and this is with an ambient temp at 94. Pretty impressive as for transmission temp.