transmission....get full meal or just a snack?

[Hummin Cummins]

I'm closing in on the 125,000 mark. My TC has slipped a few times. I have been researching all the info here, took some asprin, dug through all the :-{} and actually learned a little.



I am definately going with one of the 2 "big boys". With $ being tight I am going to run this transmission till it dont get me home while I save my $ for a new one.



I am leaning toward the full transmission. Just ship it to me, I put it in and ship my old one back for a core. Most of the threads I read, it seems guys have just done TC/VB or had a shop do the rebuild. I need my truck everyday and this is why I am leaning toward a full transmission swap.



Anyone out there do this?



Chris

 

[BFC]

If you can afford it, I'd do the complete transmission. I had mine done recently and the only thing that wasn't change(that needed too) is the output shaft(Billet one not available yet or it would have).



The only thing that I can think of is whole trannies are expensive to ship, if you have a qualified builder handy it might endup costing the same. All trannies are rebuilt ones, wetter they do it in their shop or a transmission guru rebuilds yours in his shop(using same parts) ends up the same.



I'd go easiest option for you. either or you can't go wrong, assuming you have acces to a qualified rebuilder as I did. (thanks James!)



Glenn

 

[Mallory]

Do the swap, to many things that need to be looked at after 125k. Call DTT and catch them at a meet to save shipping. Brian

 

[illflem]

You're better off to replace the transmission one way or another before it disintegrates and contaminates the whole system. It will be cheaper in the long run not to wait.

 

[CumminsAholic]

I put my own transmission in. It's a long story, but to make it short... I had mine rebuilt at a trained DTT installer. When I picked it up (10 hours away) it didn't seem right, but I brought it home anyways. Got home and it still didn't act right. Called Bill and we tried a lot of things, but it just wasn't right. So he sent me a new transmission that he built and I put it in and sent my first one back. This one works great. It wasn't hard to install and I think that I'm going to just have Bill ship me one for our other truck and I'll put that in too instead of having an installer do it. An installer would maybe be better, but the nearest one to me is 10 hours away and I feel comfortable putting one in so that's what I'll do. If you're curious there was something cracked or broken inside of the first trans. Bill sent me the other one free of charge and paid for the return shipping of my old one. I always heard of how good his customer service was, but now I know firsthand... you can't beat it. Thanks Bill.

So if you're getting a full trans it isn't that hard to put in and if you get it from Bill he'll walk you through everything you don't know or aren't sure about how to do. Other builders may do the same thing, but I don't know because I haven't gotten a trans from them.