Hey,
Anyone know of a good place in alberta who biulds trannies(48re)?

 

Steve at Commercial Powertrain. He is just east of Mallzac.

 

I personally am tried of giving my left kidney for a transmission regardless who builds it, that will only lasts by design a 100000km's. Had a bunch of best of the best outfits build mine over the years.

My poorly designed stock 68rfe transmission has held up better than the indestructible 47/48RE. I actually use my 2010 for towing more than my 02 has in the last three years. Both trucks are at similar power levels.

Found a few shops that will build a transmission/converter for $3k, and have a decent warranty period. This time around I'm not buying any billet parts, seen enough of those fancy unbreakable parts broken over the years. I lost my 4th transmission in my 02 (its only has 350000km on the truck), this time around I'm going the cheap skate route.

 

Wow Mike....Your on your 4th trans........And you spent good money on those rebuilds...

 

Ya sorry for the rant, I'm fairly angry over it.

The billet accumulator is frozen into position. The front/rear billet drums are starting to show indications of wear. The 2-3 and shuttle valves are were getting stuck in the valve body. I ordered a new valve body and accumulator, fingers crossed I can repair it fairly cheaply.

This transmission 47/48RE has 125000km's on it, 90% of those miles have been with the stock single HX-35 turbo and 100HP injectors.

 

Almost better to go with a standard trans at that point?

 

no idea what he does to them but I've been told to talk to Mel at Excel in red deer.................

 

Mel at Excell in Red Deer, be up front with him as to what you want to do with your truck. Ie I have a Edge programmer, 60hp nozzles, etc, I tow 10,000lbs every other day.
That way he can tailor the tranny to your needs.

Mike that sucks they build trucks nowadays to be expendable every 100,000kms

 

Mike that sucks they build trucks nowadays to be expendable every 100,000kms

Isn't that the truth. All of that wonderful epa junk/front issues and tires just about explodes with issues around that magic 100000km mark.

I forgot about Mel in Red Deer. I'll call him next week.

I might even do the transmission rebuild myself. At least then you know what is inside the transmission nothing worst than buying (aka paying for) a built billet transmission with no billet guts inside. Sure a lot cheaper, done a few 727 and 904 way back when.

 

Steve Tobler is probably one of the best slop box builders in Alberta, local guy from Forest Lawn and made trannies like the Ford FMX work when no one else could. Steve was one of the 1st to modify 700R4's for hd use, if he does the work it will "work" and used to have fantastic shop warranty.

 

Mel had done all my transmissions. Hard to beat his service. Just tell him what power your wanna push so it isn't underbuilt. Tell him Jamie sent ya and he will hook ya up.

 

Thanks everyone. I'll pass it on.

 

Had to bump this just so I could get me two cents of opinion and bitching

YOU are right!!!

Summit performance transmission here in lower mainland (ex BD diesel guy)

Sold me on the best of best garbage.
$5300 original price
Didn't work =fixed under warranty minus re+re of $500 cause I originally installed it.
Blew up at 600km= fixed under warrant minus tow bills of $400
Blew up at 3000osh km = warranty minus $500 towing and fluid and $$800 re+re

Almost $8k into mine and trans builder says no more warranty and go away.

I have less then 10 000km on it
Should have went manual