hey guys

I need to know what tranny my duck has

I have a 1994 dakota 5.2l v8. club cab 2wd short bed.

I wanna install a transgo shift kit. anybody ever put one on their trucks? how hard is it, and did it improve the performance at all.

thanks!
graeme

 

Should be an A518 (at least from a tranny rebuilder standpoint)

Depending on what company or who you ask it is categorized by other #'s ( 46 RE, 42RH, Yata Yata Yata, Whatever, theres lots of #'s that mean the same thing)

Crawl under your truck and look at the tranny pan. If it is rectangular then it is an A500, IF it is rectangular but has a buldge on the right hand side under the dipstick tube, then it is an A518. Should be a 518 for the V8, but there are a coulple of 500 running around out there behind V8's.

 

I have a Transgo that is waiting to go into mine. If you do attempt to do this yourself, take your time and make sure you have a very clean work area. You do not want to muck up a valvebody. I am looking forward to mine when I get the chance to do it. My tranny pan gasket has failed once again, so I may try and do it whan I put a Mopar gasket in instead of the cheap cork ones I've been using, but I also want to put a deep tranny pan in as well, either the Mopar one or LPW.

 

The cork ones WILL leak within a year. There are new ones out made of some light brown material. They are hard and dont bend easily, but they do not collapse allowing fluid leaks.

 

Yeah, Mopar has a reusable gasket now that pretty much eliminates the problem. I'll pick up one of those when I am ready. Truck is just sitting for now anyway.