Pulled my HTS transmission with 3400miles

[BillGotthelf]

Is anyone thinking the same thing I am?

 

[RankRam]

Is anyone thinking the same thing I am?

:-laf Yep!

 

[Dodge-Tech]

Is anyone thinking the same thing I am?

I think I am!:-:-laf:-laf

 

[Daryl_P]

Is anyone thinking the same thing I am?

Yeah, I believe I am.

 

[mykal41]

space cadet!!!

 

[dclassens]

This is one of the most odd posts I have reand in my five years of TDR.

 

[Motorhead]

Too much tail pipe gas!

 

[JCleary]

now who wants to sell me parts???

I would venture to say, not many people at all, based on your way of dealing with your situation.



I sincerely wish you the best of luck.



Keep in mind, though, that with high performance modifications you need to be prepared to pay for the consequences. Parts fail, plain and simple. Many times, especially with transmissions and turbos, it's the user's fault and not the equipment's fault. It seems like your vendors stepped up to the plate after you called them out, and you're refusing their help. Not sure why you don't let them resolve the issue.



You're going to be worse off cobbling together separate pieces from different vendors to get a "race" transmission built.



But hey, it's your truck, not mine and I don't have to depend on it.



Strange post indeed. Troll maybe?

 

[dezeldog]

I think there's quite abit of smoke damage in the attic. Strange isn't the word for it.



Jim

 

[BBowers]

DerekW, no matter what these guys on here are saying I share your frustration, as they should. I know shops have to make a profit, as do the transmission builders, but with a built transmission costing as much as an entire good used car and the only thing it does is shift gears and churn oil there is no excuse why things aren't better. I am going to be upgrading my transmission soon and am bordering on terrified with some of the stuff I have read. I live 90 minutes from Suncoast and will likely use them after hearing about the transport problem you are having. If anyone on TDR thinks it's unreasonable to expect 6-9 grand of machinery for, 6-9 grand, thenperhaps THEY have breathed too much this or that. Mechanics mess up, they are only human. Once a mechanic I knew and respected closed a KT-19 cummins up with a few shop rags in a cylinder unit after replacing a piston/liner assembly in a tugboat. The rags were shredded in the turbo(no aftercooler), and spat out the exhaust. No harm it seemed, but it could have gone worse. What if a socket or gasket knife had been wrapped up in the rag? Anyway, It seems that you had a blocked oil cooler line, and the check valve plugged up? I didn't get all of what you are trying to say. I WILL say this to all the shops who read this. Even if you guys slow down a bit, maybe lose short term profits, you will regain the money and much more in the long run because others who take short cuts, hire unskilled or uncaring techs, or take on too much work or use an inferior part here and there to save 50 bucks, will soon be out of the business due to a bad rep. I have heard goerand's seems to really do a careful job at all they do, and I am glad to hear NGM and HTS are steppng up. Maybe you just had one of those one in 250,000 trucks freak ordeals. I just get sick of reading this shop or that won't stand behind a broken billet shaft or this converter or that clutch pack assembly. For $8 grand, the darn thing should be bulletproof and lubricate itself on used vegetable oil as well as tell you how good looking its owner is. If the axles, cranks, rods, diffs, chassis, driveshafts, wheelbearings, etc. , can take the abuse of hot CP3's twins, big singles, drag launches, etc, then so to should a slush box designed more or less 50 years ago. If the forges can't make good alloys or they have poor quality control, then maybe "outsourcing overseas" is a bad idea after all. I know some stuff in these trannys is Canadian, probably Chinese and Korean too, but it should be no prob whatsoever to take a good used 48RE and mod it into a race transmission that lasts the life of the engine. If it is, maybe SOME SHOP SHOULD MOD A TOUGHER, larger transmission to adapt to the cummins that will last, like some ford, allison, or GM transmission. Maybe something out of a medium duty truck. In any case, there IS a market for plug and play transmission that is right the first time 99. 9% of the time and lasts and lasts despite abuse. I will add this:if a junker costs 8 grand and lasts no longer than a stock transmission, then maybe 10 or 12 grand will buy a bolt in and forget it rock crusher! WOuldn't it be cheaper in the long run?