Just want to make sure I can use a factory Mopar filter with a DTT vavle body. Changed fluid and filter and the filter on the DTT valve body does not look like the Mopar one I bought. It has an aluminum and plastic body around it and only uses 2 screws.

 

Do you have a deep pan somtimes they will give you a drop filter. Also i know with my DTT trasn they told me to adjust my bands evrery sevice Did they tell you this??

 

I've got the standard Mag-Hytec pan. I think it adds .5 quart over stock. The filter John (Floor It Diesel) used is just the filter media itself with no external covering on it. I put bolted the Mopar one up and it fits right. Just uses two screws where as the one John used has 3 in it. Did DTT happen to tell you to use the Dodge Service Manual specs when adjusting your bands or do they have other specs? Thanks

 

I use the mopar one with covering. No problems for 100K miles.....before and after DTT build.

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Call Mag-Hytec and they will ship to you cheap, the open design filters and new gaskets. The gaskets and filters were approx. $3.00 ea. when I sold the '99 two years ago.

 

DO NOT run that filter. You need to tell them your truck is a 1996 and use that filter. I learned the hard way. The extra line pressure will suck the guts our of the cased filter and up into the VB. It destroyed my tranny within 2 weeks.

 

Great. Already took it out of the package. I'll run up to Napa tomorrow and grab the open style. Glad I asked. Thanks

 

First I have heard of anybody having any trouble with the cased filter. That is all I have ever run on mine.......in 106K miles, before and after my DTT build 22K miles ago. My 30 year transmission builder could have put either one on........and used the one I brought him, the encased one and said it didn't matter. Not arguing...........im just saying......I've never heard of an issue on them.

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I too have a modded tranny with additional line pressure. It's not a DTT, but I was not warned about not using a cased filter, and the guy who built my tranny knows trannies. It was also built at my B-I-L's former shop and he is always calling me to make sure I'm happy with the work(he never has mentioned not using cased filters either). It has 30,000 miles and two fluid changes with new filters on the rebuild.

 

Tim told me to use the old style filter, not the new one.

 

Which is what I'm gonna do. Thanks for the input fellas.

 

Well to be honest im not sure if there the same or not but he told me to do it evry 20,000 miles thoght that was allot ??? Did you get any guidlines like this

And it kinda wories me cuase when there adjusted you can tell

 

I'm sure they were adjusted when the trans was built. That was 25,000 miles ago and it shifts like the day it was built. I'm not gonna mess with it.

 

The reason they tell you to use the old style open filter is because they flow better. That also means they filter less. So by the same token, that could theoretically at least, contribute the closed filter "sucking" problem, but I have not heard of this until now either. Neither of them filter very well, for the intended purpose of removing contaminant from the fluid. Basically it's a choice of crappy or really crappy filtering.

 

SO THEY DIDNT TELL YOU TO DO THIS ??? MY guy Richard in Miami told me how important it was.