HO 48re trans owners, any regrets???

[scotty1]

Re: Re: A wee bit of enlightenment

Originally posted by Pit Bull

Scott good information. Just one question how many NV5600's in Canada? The reason I ask is 51 could be low or it could be real high. As a comparison - say 20 people had lung cancer in a certain town. That might mean there is a major problem if the town was Nixa Missouri with a population of 200. But if it was Atlanta Georgia with a population of 2,000,000 it would mean that lung cancer was not a problem. Catch my drift Got to have all of the numbers. From what I have read the NV5600 is a very dependable transmission. I know that like yourself some people are having problems which can be expected with any product. Also anytime you add anything like a unauthorized friction modifier to the NV5600 you are adding another variable to the formula and skewing the data by possibly increasing the failure rate (I hope that what you just added to your NV5600 does not cause a premature failure). I do know that NV made some design changes in the NV5600 starting in early 2002 model Dodge CTD's which may have eliminated some of these problems. I know that my late manufacture (July 2002) NV5600 shifts great. I hope all of your problems are behind you.

Don't have those numbers for you. It would be hard to get those numbers with all the Canadian trucks that go to the USA. At least pre 2003 trucks went south in truck loads.



RE: Friction modifier... DC's first fix for the NV 5600 in their trucks is to add the LSD additive when theres a complaint of notchey shifting. We never did do this on the trans that came in the truck. They even tested the fluid to make sure I had what is suggested in there before any more work would be done on the truck. After speaking with a few guys that added the Lubetec additive that had over 100K on their trans, I put some in.



Heres something elese that the dealer got for me... the trucks that had failed gears in the NV 5600 where in very cold weather, some stock and some not. It was -47F the day mine took a dump and I had been driving down the highway for over an hour when it failed.

 

[Pit Bull]

Re: Re: Re: A wee bit of enlightenment

Originally posted by scott1





Heres something elese that the dealer got for me... the trucks that had failed gears in the NV 5600 where in very cold weather, some stock and some not. It was -47F the day mine took a dump and I had been driving down the highway for over an hour when it failed.

:{ if you took me out in -47F weather I would take a dump :-laf You guys up north are a lot tougher than I am

 

[DPKetchum]

Were you in 24 hour sun or 24 hour darkness?

 

[Jack in Alaska]

I test drove a 2003 3500 6 spd. HO Cummins the other day. The salesman would not let me get away without doing that.

It is a nice truck, had plenty of power and smelled new but I just could not see $30k worth of difference in it over my slightly tuned up 98. 5. I believe mine will go a second 100k and then maybe the 4500 or 5500 will be a reality. Mine is 6000 lbs. overloaded with my 5th. whl. so that will have to be corrected.

 

[91W350]

My other half was a passenger in a pretty serious car accident that shattered her right shoulder, she cannot do the manual shift thing... I would have bought a six for myself, but this auto sure is nice. I drive a little stop and go in the city and a lot of highway and backroad miles. One thing I have really learned to enjoy is the resume on the cruise. Get it back up to 35 or so and hit the resume button. Nice smooth acceleration with no worries of getting introduced to another trooper. The fist 3000 miles or so it shuddered when the torque converter locked up, that has really smoothed out now. This is a great truck to drive, still running about 17 to 18 at 70 mph on fuel too! . Glen