NV5600 Failure
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NV5600 problems
Just recently, my NV5600 started making noise, my wife likened it to a box full of pans crashing to the ground, accompanied by jerking and what felt like a flat tire. I heard it and felt it again today this time I could not select a gear and the truck would not move without generous amounts of engine and clutch. Then after a prayer to The Almighty the tranny let loose and I finished my days work and are back home again.
I have thought the synchros let loose and are getting in the teeth of the gears, or I have lost a cluster bearing on the Idler shaft and it is wobbling into the mainshaft gearing.
If any one has a thought or good shop in the Tampa area let me know.
2001 Quad cab, box stock, 3.54 posi,
I have thought the synchros let loose and are getting in the teeth of the gears, or I have lost a cluster bearing on the Idler shaft and it is wobbling into the mainshaft gearing.
If any one has a thought or good shop in the Tampa area let me know.
2001 Quad cab, box stock, 3.54 posi,
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Nv5600's do not break. Ever. Just ask our esteemed sledpullers. G56's on the other hand have been known to break if driven within 100 miles of a sledpulling event. Heck, if the event comes to within 100 miles of a parked g56 truck, the owner will often find that his transmission is neutral in all gears if he is so foolish as to attempt to move his truck.
There has been a tremendous rash of g56 failures in normal use. Shoot, I bet you can find at least 5 people on this forum who have had a problem with a g56, or know someone that has. If that's not proof of a poorly designed transmission, I don't know what is. Additionally, the fact that they don't withstand sledpulling is conclusive proof that they are junk. Just ask any sledpuller!
Frankly, I haven't yet figured out how people can think they are worth a darn when sledpullers break them.
There has been a tremendous rash of g56 failures in normal use. Shoot, I bet you can find at least 5 people on this forum who have had a problem with a g56, or know someone that has. If that's not proof of a poorly designed transmission, I don't know what is. Additionally, the fact that they don't withstand sledpulling is conclusive proof that they are junk. Just ask any sledpuller!
Frankly, I haven't yet figured out how people can think they are worth a darn when sledpullers break them.
No, I don't think there's any nv5600 envy. The motivation for this is that folks see a logical fallacy in the assertion that the g56 is junk because they don't withstand sledpulling. That exact assertion has been made at least once, though I can't remember who did it. Logical fallacies promoted as fact bother me-they always have. If someone had said such a thing about two products I didn't even own but for some reason had joined a forum for, I would have had the same reaction. For what I use a truck for neither one is the best choice-a built auto trans is. I don't generally tow very heavy, but I do like to drag race. Anyway, I'm getting off the subject...
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