It's true the poor boy has been bent over more than his share lately.
I've worked with a few guys that were qualified on paper that should have had their tool boxes confiscated for public safety.

As for the sway bar it's a long twisted bar that connects the suspension to the body. It helps prevent body roll when cornering or cross winds. It helps with basic stability. once you lift past 3" you need special drop brackets or linksto make the bar still fit properly. Lots of time lift kits don't come with these drop brackets so the bar gets disconnected or removed.
Sometimes the bar is intentionally removed for better off road performance too.

This sway bar is pretty important and body roll (or sway) is worse on a lifted truck due to the higher center of gravity.
If you post a pic of your front axle from the front I can tell you if the bar is there.

 

Here is a pic. The sway bar is hanging down from the body in the pic but it is still attached to the front axle.

Good move taking it to a different tranny shop too. Ask if the shop is an A.T.R.A. member.
Usually they will have a sign or sticker on the door stating if they are a member.

 

Heres a picture of a sway bar so that you can see really clear. Thats a great catch though
I doubt there was very many people who thought of the sway bar. I know I didn't.



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i wish i could say i felt bad about this kid.

 

My tranny was done by an atra certified shop. I get like 1yr or 10,000 miles. Shop seemed to do a good job. Guess I'll find out down the road haha.

 

http://www.apsprecision.com/


You can get a tranny and a pleneum kit here and get it all taken care of. I have a pleneum kit sitting in the other room from him right now it's just not installed. I got the deluxe with all the bolts and gaskets. Thats what I was told I should get as I was told not to reuse the old bolts. I'm really not sure my pleneum is bad. If you plug the PCV and plug on the other valve cover and then let go it blows out like it should and acts like it should only thing is there is a slight bit of oil if you look down the tb but it's not much at all not like I've seen pictures of on here.


Sounds to me like you are getting screwed. Instead of letting a shop screw you on a transmission rebuild and pleneum repair I'd seriously consider getting a good tranny from one of the online companys we recommend. I have a feeling that we are going to be hearing from you in 6 months about how your freshly rebuilt tranny is acting up.

 

Oh and btw my truck never threw any codes when the transmission was messing up on it.

 

Wanye at APS offers a 2 year unlimited milage warranty. This is a nice thing as the 2 years 20k miles a lot of shops offer would be more like a year for me as I drive quite a bit.

The only downside I see is that you have to pull it yourself or pay to get it pulled and put back in since he isn't local to do that part.

 

http://www.jasperengines.com/transmi...automobile.htm

Check that out. 3 year/100,000 mile warranty.

 

Yeah they have a nice warranty but they worry me as when I worked a shop we used them and just had several problems. We got one in and had to replace it as it was just slipping and didn't want to move. I just saw enough problems I wouldn't get one. I also have a buddy that has had 2 or 3 I forgot which of them in his dump truck and can't get one to last. The shop I used to work for has now stopped using the Japser ones and now uses Chrysler ones for Dodges and GM ones for Chevys, etc. I just saw enough problems with them I'd be too worried to use one. Then again lots of people seem to have okay luck with them and they do offer a nice warranty. They still however are stock transmissions. These Dodges have several issues that cause them to have problems. They seem to last anywhere from 10-100k and not much more. I've heard of several peoples factory ones going out with 20-30k on them. When you get one from a good shop like APS he adresses the issues that they have and fixes them therefore making them a basically bulletproof tranny. Something they just aren't in stock form.