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Old Wed, October 5th, 2011, 01:10 PM
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Not familiar with manual transmissions (except they are better and easier to work on)


You've never been into either style have you?


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Old Wed, October 5th, 2011, 03:52 PM
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You've never been into either style have you?


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Naww...I never have. Thats just what I've heard from other people that have. Thats not a job I would want to tackle myself on my daily driver.

So the automatic is easier???
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I couldn't tell ya which is easier... but I know the manual was expensive :/. $500ish to replace the master and slave cylinders, but it works great now!
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Manual tranny hard parts can be VERY expensive. I think most believe they are cheap to fix and hardly ever break, but the cost to rebuild a ZF is nearly double what it would be to do a 4R100.
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Which is harder to work on?
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Manual tranny hard parts can be VERY expensive. I think most believe they are cheap to fix and hardly ever break, but the cost to rebuild a ZF is nearly double what it would be to do a 4R100.
Good thing they last twice as long... Oh wait....sometimes they don't. My ZF6 tossed out the springs in the clutch, then the slave cyl failed, and then the clutch fork bent and failed..... and then and finally then the whole trans failed at ~70k. It lost the pocket bearing. I just exchanged it with the HO version thats in the 02-03's($1900). So far so good. I still perfer it for towing vs, 4R100's or the 5R110's. With the US gear OD behind it, it make for a awesome towing machine, Always in the right gear...

If it had a high HP truck with injectors, big oil and turbos, I'd run a 4R100 too, just for the fun factor.
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What is the US gear with OD? and would I want one?
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Its a gear splitter, gives you like an in-between gear (1st, 1st-over, 2nd, 2nd-over...) Mounts between the transmission and differential. It helps the rpms from falling so much when pulling. I'm not sure if US Gear makes them anymore....I know Gear Vendor does...you can pick one up for $3k IIRC. If you do a lot of heavy towing it would be handy to have. I don't know what kind of power output they are rated too though. I think I've seen some 500hp trucks with Gear Vendors unit in Diesel Power.

My rebuild with some upgrades was $2100.
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