All bad news found out that somehow my reverse gear fused the clutches or somethin like that anyhow so the reason why 3rd and reverse only work is due to the fact I guess reverse uses 3rd gear clutches.
The guy said they use resin impregnated paper for the friction plates and he uses kevlar instead when he rebuilds them.
So I only need clutches but if someones gonna crack it open I'm just getting a complete rebuild.
I'm thinkin what happened is it was a below freezing day and the morons at my friends trailer park plowed my truck in on all sides, I let it warm up I guess it just prolly wasn't warmed up enough and probably starved something of transmission fluid when I had to give it a little gas to get out in the morning.
Just another thing big vehicle manufacturers prolly do on purpose so their vehicles just make it past the warranty period.
He actually told me a story about talking to a GM plant manager and he basically said the same thing they just want to make it past the warranty cause they want to make money. More vehicles breaking down equals more money for the corporations makes sense to me!
I'm still a ford man and I'm going to have him put drag racing clutches in it I think he said they're a blued steel that are infused with teflon or somethin.
Either way for a basic heavy duty rebuild it's $1800 for everything (belts clutches new valve which I guess is magnesium or somethin, seals and your normal stuff also) but I'm thinkin I'm going to have him put a few more bucks into it and I might just get the $250 extended warranty for 36mo 36,000 instead of the normal 12mo 12,000 mile.
He also mentioned with big companies like level 10 transmissions and jasper you're just paying for a name and a warranty anyhow, he said he can build anything they can but for way cheaper and if I want the extra warranty I can buy it of course ha.
I just kinda freaked cause it's a load of crap for a tranny to go out so soon but I guess it's life!
One of these days I'll get to put some money into the motor and get my evo turned into a gryphon with custom tunes lol
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