Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Worked on a '00 2500 NV5600 yesterday. Owner thought she had a clutch problem. The truck is in great shape and has only 44k miles. She thought it was difficult to get into low and reverse. Clutch friction point was perfect and it went into low normally for a 5600 but reverse grinds as the trany spins down. If I grab 4th first to slow things it goes in fine. Doesn't feel like the pilot is hanging up. I changed the fluid using the Mopar stuff since that's what was available. The magnet had the normal fuzz but also some small slivers of metal but not a lot. The oil had a lot of metallic color it in. I'm pretty sure this was its first change so this may be normal. The new oil didn't help at all and a test drive didn't reveal any noises. Sounds like a problem with the reverse synchron to me. Anyone else have anything like this happen? Oh, she says she hits reverse a little sometimes when going for 6th (hasn't had truck long) so maybe some of that metal is from that. I know my truck won't let me hit reverse at speed but hers will. Ideas?
I told her to go ahead and drive it and deal with it later if something gets worse since it probably wouldn't be cheap to fix. On the other hand reverse is in the tail housing so maybe it wouldn't be too bad to fix...
I told her to go ahead and drive it and deal with it later if something gets worse since it probably wouldn't be cheap to fix. On the other hand reverse is in the tail housing so maybe it wouldn't be too bad to fix...
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