Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
ATS Trans Installed
Well I Did it,
Got the ATS Stage IV trans with the lock up controller.
I can say, this trans is GREAT and 100% better than the stock Dodge 47RE was. The shifts are very firm but still smooth. My truck became a pleasure to drive after the install. The power now goes to the ground and not out the tail pipe. It feels like I'm using half the throtle preasure I was using and the truck now takes off at 1000 RPM, by 1300 RPM your gone.
Clint, Renee, Don and the entire mechanic staff made me feel like I was a part of thier family. I had total access of the shop and what a learning experiance it was to watch a Torque Converter being built to the disassembly of a transmission. Transmissions of all kinds . This isnt just a Dodge shop these guys rebuilt every thing from little cars to big trucks in there 8 Bay Shop.
There Mechanics are top notch and second to none. And then there is Kevin Goode what a guy, sure wish that I would have had more time to spend with Kevin and the guys. I also had the pleasure of meeting StakeMan at the ATS shop.
After I left the ATS shop my wife and I logged in 4500 miles in 14 Days traveling the back and scenic roads of Colorado From Estes Park to Dinosaur to Aspen, then back thru Denver via I-70
(Stoped in and said hello and thanks again to the ATS guys) headed to Canon City and the Royal Gorge, the 4 Corners, Teluride,Silverton Durango and many many unmentoined towns along the way, and then over the Wolf Creek Pass headed towards home in good old Mississippi. Even though I was running with out a trailer on this trip with about 600 #'s of camping gear supplys tools(just in case) and my wifes gotta have stuff rocks & such, the Mountain Passes were of no concern on the way up or down, just adjust the Lock Up Control Box and it would hold the speed I set it at al the way down any grade. The lock up control box is simply the best money along with the trans up grade that I have spent on my truck.
Thanks Again to the ATS Guys & Gals.
TJ
Well I Did it,
Got the ATS Stage IV trans with the lock up controller.
I can say, this trans is GREAT and 100% better than the stock Dodge 47RE was. The shifts are very firm but still smooth. My truck became a pleasure to drive after the install. The power now goes to the ground and not out the tail pipe. It feels like I'm using half the throtle preasure I was using and the truck now takes off at 1000 RPM, by 1300 RPM your gone.
Clint, Renee, Don and the entire mechanic staff made me feel like I was a part of thier family. I had total access of the shop and what a learning experiance it was to watch a Torque Converter being built to the disassembly of a transmission. Transmissions of all kinds . This isnt just a Dodge shop these guys rebuilt every thing from little cars to big trucks in there 8 Bay Shop.
There Mechanics are top notch and second to none. And then there is Kevin Goode what a guy, sure wish that I would have had more time to spend with Kevin and the guys. I also had the pleasure of meeting StakeMan at the ATS shop.
After I left the ATS shop my wife and I logged in 4500 miles in 14 Days traveling the back and scenic roads of Colorado From Estes Park to Dinosaur to Aspen, then back thru Denver via I-70
(Stoped in and said hello and thanks again to the ATS guys) headed to Canon City and the Royal Gorge, the 4 Corners, Teluride,Silverton Durango and many many unmentoined towns along the way, and then over the Wolf Creek Pass headed towards home in good old Mississippi. Even though I was running with out a trailer on this trip with about 600 #'s of camping gear supplys tools(just in case) and my wifes gotta have stuff rocks & such, the Mountain Passes were of no concern on the way up or down, just adjust the Lock Up Control Box and it would hold the speed I set it at al the way down any grade. The lock up control box is simply the best money along with the trans up grade that I have spent on my truck.
Thanks Again to the ATS Guys & Gals.
TJ
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Gotta love an aftermarket transmission.
