What is life expectancy of a 5spd?? What kind of milaege have you guys seen out of your 2nd gen 5 speeds. At what point do they go in for a rebuild?

 

I got about 250,000 miles out of mine.

 

I'd give it about 20 minutes with you driving!!! I've seen you bang the gears before my friend !!

Rick

 

I rebuilt mine a 240,000

 

Hey now, those days are behind me

Tom

 

i have 197,000, brother only had 150-160,000 lost 4th, and buddy has 205,000 still good so far little slop in shifter but not to bad

 

That is exactly what I was thinking too!!!

 

Allright, allright you knuckleheads, lay off will ya

 

A lot depends on the type of driving example city vs hwy + towing vs empty and as has been said the guy driving it. My 99 dually has 217k on it with the original clutch still in it and is still good for more. I tow a fifth wheel camper and a boat and drive as little city as possible.

 

Thats about all i used mine for and it gave no signs of going. It just all of a sudden went. My original clutch lasted till about 240,000miles. Then i put the injectors in. The 250,000 mark is about the average that ive heard of around here of the NV4500 lasting.

 

When you say all of a sudden it went WHAT HAPPENED???
Did it just grenade in the middle of the freeway and throw pieces everywhere??
Did you do any oil changes or at least check that it was full in that 250k run??
I would suspect unless something literally blew you would have gotten some indication of trouble brewing.

 

i've got about 150k on mine and 4th is giving me a little trouble, but other than that, it's going strong!

 

on my 97 chevy 454, i got about 130k before the 5th gear nut got me. i think it was a nv4500

brett

 

175000 plus and still going strong. Running synthetic oil and two trans coolers bolted on where the PTO covers go.

 

Allright guys, thanks for the input. I appreciate it.

Tom