A little Rant

[steermaster]

So over the past two months I have had my transmission custom built to hold the HP I want to put up. I removed and installed myself to make it cheaper. I got my supercharger, had to wait again for different bolts from manufacturer cause they sent wrong ones. Finally get it installed, decided to go with methanol/water rather than intercooler. ordered that....controller backordered....2.5 weeks later i get the parts. I get EVERYTHING installed. Then just have to wait a week for the my tuner to have time. Finally get it in to tune, he asks a lot about my TC because he can feel it grabbing really hard. Go ahead and get finished at the tuners getting everything just right on tuesday. The shifting is a little off so I decide to make an appt today (friday) to get it flashed. On my way to the dealership I am on the hwy and go to pass a truck, as I get next to him my truck RACKS out the rev limiter, I have no torque. I slow down (unwillingly) and pull to the side. She drives in 2nd, 1st, but will only do about 15 in Drive before she kicks into neutral. I call my trans builder, he non shelantly says "well ya I may have done something wrong or missed something" WTF?!?!!??! So now 6 days prior to me driving this baby across the country I have to rip the trans out and hope to hell he rebuilds it CORRECTLY before I need to leave. Anyone else out there not catching a break!?!?!? LOL

 

[Esgordon123]

Wow that blows. I hope it works out for you. Good luck.


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[RonJon '06]

I was sent the wrong headers when I did my build and had to wait a week for the right ones. There was also a lot of trouble getting my tune dialed in. Modding sure can be fun, hopefully yours isn't too hard to fix.

 

[Redtruck-VA]

Unfortunately modifying our trucks is a hit or miss affair. The bigger the mod, more often things go wrong. Then when you are finished, often reliability comes into question. You might consider trailering the truck behind a UHaul when going across country or something similar. I had issues with Red last Fall and finally decided I would keep modding the old girl and got a support vehicle and trailer. It's a lot more fun when you don't have to have it running to take you to work in the morning. As for transmissions, I decided that it 545RFE won't hold the power and abuse I give it and should have a 46RH with some billet pieces install shortly. Good luck...

 

[Sportznut]

I learned my lesson about getting my vehicles worked on shortly before long trips a couple years ago. Just had my Toyota serviced the day before I was to leave on a 2400 mile trip. I left at 8 o'clock at night, at 10 o'clock I tried to set the cruise control, it did not work! It was too dark to do anything about it and I drove through the night, 1200 miles straight. Opened up the hood the next day, the mechanic forgot to reconnect the cruise control cable wire!

 

[steermaster]

Unfortunately modifying our trucks is a hit or miss affair. The bigger the mod, more often things go wrong. Then when you are finished, often reliability comes into question. You might consider trailering the truck behind a UHaul when going across country or something similar. I had issues with Red last Fall and finally decided I would keep modding the old girl and got a support vehicle and trailer. It's a lot more fun when you don't have to have it running to take you to work in the morning. As for transmissions, I decided that it 545RFE won't hold the power and abuse I give it and should have a 46RH with some billet pieces install shortly. Good luck...

Does that 46RH mount up the same? hold out better?

I learned my lesson about getting my vehicles worked on shortly before long trips a couple years ago. Just had my Toyota serviced the day before I was to leave on a 2400 mile trip. I left at 8 o'clock at night, at 10 o'clock I tried to set the cruise control, it did not work! It was too dark to do anything about it and I drove through the night, 1200 miles straight. Opened up the hood the next day, the mechanic forgot to reconnect the cruise control cable wire!

I would be on fire!!!! LOL glad it was easy fix though

 

[Redtruck-VA]

Another name for the 46RH is A518 which is a 727 with a lock up converter and a .67 OD and can be run without a TCM. It does bolt up to hemi but requires a spacer or a special flexplate to make it fit properly. Do your research and determine if it is for you or not.