so my transmission went out today, booo....
this couldnt have happened at a worse time, me and my girlfriend are moving in together soon, and im starting a new job where ill be using my truck every day.
i dont know what to do im tempted to buy another truck 03 or better diesel, im gonna keep the truck even if i buy the new one, itll just be a toy for a later date. but for now im gonna hafta sell one of my fourwheelers.
anyways....
what should i do about fixin my truck? here are the options i have come up with:
1) follow bc847's rebuild
2) buy a built transmission from ats, goerends etc
3) swap in a stock 47rh, i can afford to do the swap, but prolly not to beef it up
4) swap in a getrag
5) swap in a nv4500
6) buy a duramax (expensive, but nice)

lots of input would be much appreciated.

 

Getrag swap. That is if you like to shift.

 

47rh or nv4500

 

agreed, if you don't like to shift then the 47rh

 

are you sure it went out?
what makes you think its bad?

i like my getrags go manual if you can find one

 

you can do an allison swap for as much as a 47rh now a days im in mine about $2100 thats an option 5 speed with lock up oh ya

 

yeah but how much power does it take just to spin that big trans?

 

there just a hopped up th400, pump and converter look the same

 

and dont we all know how chevy trannies love diesels

 

The trannys been goin out for a while it would just have no power off the line and wouldn't pull a decent load very well. Today I was driving and it hardley wanted to leave this intersection I was at. I stopped and checkjed my fluid and it was black and kinda gritty.
A tranny line I had to mend a while back came loose and I dumped all of my fluid about a month ago going real slow. This was brand new atf+4 fluid!!!!

 

if it looks like crap its going to work like crap. do a tranny flush. take the returning tranny cooler line off and stick it in a bucket and have someone poor fluid in while you cycle from park to N or D 2 1

 

This was brand new fluid! A month old! Read my last post

Hey Greed wanna tell me more about the allison swap? Sounds interesting

 

if the fluid is burn't trans is dead in my opionion. i have had many auto trans and never seen a trans come back to life. won't say it can't happen. how long did last trans last. buy a box a parts and rebuild it.

 

1stgen545 may still have a allison set up and ready to run on a first gen. He had it in his pulling truck but the rules changed and he went with the 4500. Its in the classifieds

 

Whats your budget? like what do you think you can get for your 4 wheeler+extra..... IMHO the truck may be a tow/daily down the road then do the tranny right the first time. Get a 47rh with everything you need and do a single disk goerend converter or something with a $50 shift kit from transgo.