Tranny Advice please!
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From: Delta B.C.
Tranny Advice please!
Hey guys,
I was towing my 3000 LB tent trailer this weekend, and the lake we were camping at is only 4 miles of gravel road up to it, but you climb 1800 feet I believe in those 4 miles...
At the bottom of the road I put it in 4 Low and started to climb, I had my chip in stock position ( by accident ) and about 2 miles up my trans gauge went high and I could feel it struggle... I pulled over, had a beer and let it cool and continued on... it was OK at best for the next 2 miles... Truck was fine all the way home...
I am planning on having the tranny re-built this winter, have been quoted $2500 canadian from the tranny shop we have dealt with at work or 20+ years... that includes new TC, steel planataries..... Sadly I just dont have the $$$ right now to do this or I would....
So, for now I am wanting to do this:
Manual TC lock up switch ( I cant stand the way the PCM controls it )
6.0L trans cooler
Bully Dog shift enhancer
Think this will help till winter???
Anything else you can think of that I should do??
Thanks!!!!!
Bob
I was towing my 3000 LB tent trailer this weekend, and the lake we were camping at is only 4 miles of gravel road up to it, but you climb 1800 feet I believe in those 4 miles...
At the bottom of the road I put it in 4 Low and started to climb, I had my chip in stock position ( by accident ) and about 2 miles up my trans gauge went high and I could feel it struggle... I pulled over, had a beer and let it cool and continued on... it was OK at best for the next 2 miles... Truck was fine all the way home...
I am planning on having the tranny re-built this winter, have been quoted $2500 canadian from the tranny shop we have dealt with at work or 20+ years... that includes new TC, steel planataries..... Sadly I just dont have the $$$ right now to do this or I would....
So, for now I am wanting to do this:
Manual TC lock up switch ( I cant stand the way the PCM controls it )
6.0L trans cooler
Bully Dog shift enhancer
Think this will help till winter???
Anything else you can think of that I should do??
Thanks!!!!!
Bob
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I beleive the manual TC lock mod. should help alot in that situation. I can't stand how mine controlls the TC either. Towing on a major road around here it's alright but driving on the few miles on the back roads that i live on to town and work It isn't locked as much as it could be. So i am going to be doing the mod when i get time and when i can get a guy from work to help me.
I have heard the 6.0 cooler helps a lot, but Not sure how much it would help with slow speeds as i do not have one.
And as for the BUlly dog shift thing, i would just probably go for the Sonnax kit instead I think it is the same thing just not paying for the bully dog name. And its about 50.00 shipped as compared to i think 80-100$ for the Bully dog.
If you pull that hill a lot it could be worth wiring up a pusher fan for the front of the Trans cooler if there is enough room.
I have heard the 6.0 cooler helps a lot, but Not sure how much it would help with slow speeds as i do not have one.
And as for the BUlly dog shift thing, i would just probably go for the Sonnax kit instead I think it is the same thing just not paying for the bully dog name. And its about 50.00 shipped as compared to i think 80-100$ for the Bully dog.
If you pull that hill a lot it could be worth wiring up a pusher fan for the front of the Trans cooler if there is enough room.
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Bob- First, for the rebuild I would highly recomend John Woods transmission out of Southern California. I have seen his outfit first hand and was nothing but impressed. He does what needs to be done. If a stock part meets the requirements, he will use it. If it does not, he will replace it, or if it does not exist, he will make it. More recently he has offered a full rebuilt tranny for 2900 that uses a stock 6.4L TC from the 08's. In the menatime, A manual TC switch can help with trans temps and twoing going down hills. Personally I recomend a trans cooler with it's own fan for extended low speed towing. As for trans controller, I liked the sonnax/tricumulator kit which you can get from Diesel Innovations.
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Hmmm...
FN74, thanks for the advice. I will keep them in mind...
I will be honest though I am 100% comfortable with my tranny guy too... He builds all the PSD small transit busses locally, and all the E350 armored cars too. He sees some armored cars that ford put 5 transmissions in under warantee, he puts one of his in and never sees that van again....
and for $2500 canadian, I can drop it off and pick it up, and he is willing to put a lifetime warantee on it for me....
Any feelings on the Transgo kits??
FN74, thanks for the advice. I will keep them in mind...
I will be honest though I am 100% comfortable with my tranny guy too... He builds all the PSD small transit busses locally, and all the E350 armored cars too. He sees some armored cars that ford put 5 transmissions in under warantee, he puts one of his in and never sees that van again....
and for $2500 canadian, I can drop it off and pick it up, and he is willing to put a lifetime warantee on it for me....
Any feelings on the Transgo kits??
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I wonder how much shipping and install would be extra on the 2900 dollar tranny once you get it up to canada FN74. Thats one bad thing about us canadians getting parts like transmissions from down there.
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If you are going to do anything, transgo all the way, but I really don't see the need to do anything if you are sure it is going to be rebuilt this winter. The reason it got hot was because the TC wouldn't lock and low speed. I would recommend putting in either a trucool cooler or a 6.0 cooler, both of which can and should be used when you have yours rebuilt afterwards. In this case, I am willing to be that if you had a lockup override you probably would have avoided the situation. So a lock up override setup would be good as well.
I have a transgo kit in mine and am really impressed, I like it better than the sonnax kit I had before.
I have a transgo kit in mine and am really impressed, I like it better than the sonnax kit I had before.
