OVERKILL
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This is more of a discussion than anything but I was helping a buddy of mine out (who does home automation, I do some network gear for him when required) in picking up his 2006 RAM 2500 diesel and driving it back to his shop for him. It was in at the mechanic getting a new U-joint. He drives a 2014 1500 EcoDiesel as his DD, which is a much "nicer" truck in many ways.
Anyway, he asked me how I liked driving it and whether the shaking was gone and I said it was fine though the transmission seemed eager to shift. He then informed me that this was a new transmission that had been installed last year. The truck has 270,000Km's on it (168,000 miles) currently. This surprised the pants off of me given that he doesn't tow with it and my buddy Jon's old 2005 F-250 has around 400,000Km on it with the original 5R110, many of those miles with a tuner and making 800lb-ft of torque and towing 13Klbs with it driving like a maniac.
Are these transmissions unusually fragile or was this just bad luck? I had thought Dodge had got their stuff together on their truck transmissions by 2006
Anyway, he asked me how I liked driving it and whether the shaking was gone and I said it was fine though the transmission seemed eager to shift. He then informed me that this was a new transmission that had been installed last year. The truck has 270,000Km's on it (168,000 miles) currently. This surprised the pants off of me given that he doesn't tow with it and my buddy Jon's old 2005 F-250 has around 400,000Km on it with the original 5R110, many of those miles with a tuner and making 800lb-ft of torque and towing 13Klbs with it driving like a maniac.
Are these transmissions unusually fragile or was this just bad luck? I had thought Dodge had got their stuff together on their truck transmissions by 2006