The work truck is still running...

jdustu said:
I couldn't be happier with it.

They are really weird to race though....more difficult that an auto should be :lol:

That clip from a dig, Kenny just left ESP on and left it in auto cuz the run before just blew off the tires. Leaving it in auto really slows the truck down. There's a gear Dodge threw in between 2nd and 3rd to close the gap, second prime. In auto it skips that gear...it's worth at least 2 tenths in the 1/4. It took me a while to get use to it...cuz if you put it in 1 and are WOT it'll shift into 2 on it's own, but not second prime. I'd always wait for that shift and when it delayed I'd shift it, then it would skip two gears. One of the reasons the 1/4 mile times are all over the map on these trucks.
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You have a 545RFE?
 
jdustu said:
It is...it's like a 300rpm drop when you shift :lol:
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Yeah, the intent was that it's a different gear for the downshift vs. the upshift under "normal" conditions. Basically, it was a chicken-shit way of claiming they had a 5 speeed.

When I worked at Chrysler there wasn't much love for that trans. Some guys were blowing them up at as low as 300 miles. I was fortunate enough to have four corporate lease trucks in a row with no issues. One started to slip at 18k miles, but other than that it was fine...but my duty cycle was pretty low (daily driver with a little towing here and there).
 
3rd gen guys(like Dline) put much power to them and they are on borrowed time. 4th gen guys are pretty much at(or past :lol:) their limit stock. I don't tow, it's seen a ton of highway miles...and a few drag strips. I'm not planning on doing much, mod wise. So far so good.
 
jdustu said:
3rd gen guys(like Dline) put much power to them and they are on borrowed time. 4th gen guys are pretty much at(or past :lol:) their limit stock. I don't tow, it's seen a ton of highway miles...and a few drag strips. I'm not planning on doing much, mod wise. So far so good.
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Hopefully it continues to hold up for you. My last one was in a 2004 Dakota 4x4 that was a daily driver that I bought, but I used it to tow a 26' offshore quite a bit and it was still running fine at 116k miles when I sold it last fall. One of the keys to keeping them alive seems to be frequent fluid/filter changes. I changed mine every 50k and never had an issue. The guys in the Transmission Lab at work told me to keep up with the maintenance, so I did...and it worked for me.
 
Werd. I've got the lifetime PT warranty, so I'm definitely gonna stick with the scheduled maintenance.
 
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