the official OBS diesel off topic thread
#1411
Yea... I think I am one of the lucky ones... but I will admit that it is starting to have issues.... 2-3 shift is not friendly and it sometime gets stuck between gears. But once in gear it holds strong.
Richard
Richard
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#1419
I don't know why people think a clutch is only good for 100k miles. I'm fixing to change a clutch on a 2000 SD ZF6 that has 315k miles on it that has had a trailer w/ construction equipment on board hooked to it for just about every day of it's life. Clutch still works fine, just pulling it to add a Valair b/c he doesn't want it to go out on him while he is pulling one of his goosenecks loaded down.
I will admit that autos are nice though when you just want to sit back and ride. I just put stage 1's and a TW chip in a '96 about a month ago, but until it's in overdrive it feels like the trans is going tear apart if you put any kind of power through it. Can't go more than half throttle unless your in overdrive or you lock out 3rd gear. That trans has 160k miles on it. So he is swapping in a ZF5.. $5k for a built auto or $1500 for a ZF5 swap was an easy choice for him I guess. LOL
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Uh oh!.......oh well, it'll be worth it! New truck and a happy momma!! Congrats buddy! I know you'll like having more room in the cab, and I think you'll like it for towing also. I'm assuming that you will have the JW trans put in this truck.
#1422
I have a feeling he might be cancelling his JW order.
Richard
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There were no details in the ad, just said "heavy duty transmission with overdrive". A lot of people assume the trans is "heavy duty" because it's in a i ton truck. Glenn mentioned in an earlier post that JW may have a different truck to put the trans in, so I was just assuming.....
#1425
There were no details in the ad, just said "heavy duty transmission with overdrive". A lot of people assume the trans is "heavy duty" because it's in a i ton truck. Glenn mentioned in an earlier post that JW may have a different truck to put the trans in, so I was just assuming.....
It's been 28 minutes since Glenn's last post.... I think he is being lazy...
Maybe he is just trying to build up the suspense as we hang on his every word...
Richard