Luke S

Man, there are some smarties out there. Darryl, you bought a test unit? In the past , Dodge has never let anything like that out for sale. In the 2002 model year when the all new 1/2 tons came out, we got to go to the plant to get a look at the new trucks before reular production had started. They had about 5 or 6 trucks sitting there for us to look at. They are called pilots. The full production had not actually started yet. These trucks looked exactly like the production trucks that we saw a few weeks later. I asked the zone product trainer what would be done with these trucks, and he said that these trucks were only built to practice for the real production models and for us to look at, and that these trucks would be sent to the crusher :'( He said that is normal procedure for pre-production models and test mules? :'(

DieselDaze

Wasnt 1999 the first year for the Cummins PowerStroke?<br>I heard it was a good diesel but had some problems with fouling the points... or was it a problem with the coil? <br><br>Geesh :<br><br> <br>Rich

admin

The seller changed his information in the ad to reflect that the trans was not an Allison. I feel sorry for the guy. I guess the dealer and the previous owner both told him it was an Allison. Bummer.<br><br>http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=31831

darryl

yes i did buy the allison 1000 2wd with park brake at the same time i bought some 46re gas transmissions there are decals on the trans from chryslers test facility and the whole load of transmissions were new and from a chrysler distributor and i thought long and hard before spending large money on a allison bought this way it also did not come with a torque convertor and was neatly packaged in boxes as it had been stripped and cleaned

tractordan

I just looked at the auction, and this was added to the description yesterday - <br><br>&quot;THIS HAS A STOCK TRANY NOT A ALISON, THERE HAVE BEEN NO TRANY OR ENGINE MODS&quot; I APOLOGIZE PREVIOUS OWNER GAVE WRONG INFO THA PHONE NUMBER WAS ALSO WRONG SO IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS CALL 5612485220 <br><br>

tractordan

Whoops! Sorry Jack, I didn't see that you already said that!

Luke S

Darryl, I am confused ??? You bought a test Allison tranny form Chrysler? Is that what you are saying? How did you go about buying it from them? In my experience with DC they usually junk that kind of stuff :

ramguy

I no their's no such thing as a stupid quest. but I spoke with a ******* here locally(Wichita,KS) and they commented that in 2000 &amp; 2001 DC did of Alison as an option. [undecided]<br> I asked why they no longer offered that opt. a their reply<br>was I think they had to much trouble them.

admin

[quote author=ramguy link=board=8;threadid=12334;start=15#117462 date=1047999471]<br>I no their's no such thing as a stupid quest. but I spoke with a ******* here locally(Wichita,KS) and they commented that in 2000 &amp; 2001 DC did of Alison as an option. [undecided]<br>[/quote]<br><br>This is the kind of dealer that makes other dealers look bad. I don't know of any time in my lifetime that Dodge has offered an Allison tranny in their trucks. It's amazing to me that this rumor won't die. It's kinda like the Ford owning Cummins thing on a smaller scale. Some of it just won't go away.

Luke S

Dodge has nevered offered an Allison behind the Cummins engine. Or behind any other engine for that fact. It's dealers liek that, that give the rest of us dealers a bad name &gt;

Lary Ellis (Top)

When I ordered my truck in 96, I was told it was going to have an Allison Tranny since I was ordering everything in the heavy duty package.

Of course it came with the 47RE, was the Dealer conning me or just confused?

Only he knows for sure.

Like Luke say's it is guys like that who hurt the image of all dealers, you just need to remember they are NOT all alike.

Look around till you find one you feel is honest with you, they are out there!

ramguy

Hey dudes thanks, I thought that to be the case.<br>That's one of the reasons I never bought a new ride. :'(