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Old 01-24-2006, 12:33 PM   #1
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Transmission Prob!

I blew my Dodge Auto in Bullhead City. The Dealer wanted $2800+700 Labor. No warrenty due to E-Brake and BD Auto-Loc. Called around and hooked up with Colorado Transmission & Gear. Now at home the Diesel Performance T-builders Charge around $32-3800+labor. Their trans are built to hold 800 HP.

The shop there QUOTED me $4600+420 labor for a Karway Stage 2 HillKiller trans. Sounds fair right, when you allow freight etc. He also quoted me $6400+labor for the Karway Stage 3.

Well there was a prob, so I drove to Messa, Az, manually shifting trans. That is where Karway has it's factory. They were MORE than accomadating getting it fixed. Prob was Installer prob with acuater cable. I would reccomend them HIGHLY!

Due to prob the installer reduced the price to $3450+labor.

NOW here is my Prob:

Stage 2 Quoted $4600-Karway Factory price to me $2493?
Stage 3 Quoted $6400-Karway Factory Price to me $3471?
YOU decide who you'd do business with????
 
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Old 02-12-2006, 06:09 AM   #2
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So far the trans runs great. Also, proubly due to bigger VB,TC and new parts it runs about 20 degrees cooler.
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Old 02-12-2006, 06:20 PM   #3
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What year is you truck? how much are you towing. Out of warranty??
I read on another post that Dodge had a requirement for an E-Brake on any 3500 pulling 10000lb or more. From what I understand it was in the warranty fine print.
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Old 02-12-2006, 06:26 PM   #4
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there is a post started by hemlockusa in this forum. go to the search engine and look up exhaust brake
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Old 02-13-2006, 01:34 AM   #5
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It will cost about the same to build an Allison to hold 500+ hp and the high torque numbers. I don't know how stock transmissions make it pulling if you have any power adders.
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Old 02-28-2006, 10:17 AM   #6
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All the mods are in my signature. The trailer weighs about 11K.
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