All I can say is, 01Dodge, you have been the most patient person Ive probably ever known dude.. Its a shame they are doing this to you and your truck.. I really hope everything can be resolved, and fast. Good luck my friend.

 

Thank you guys all for the advice and support, it means a lot to me. PA thank you for doing an independant search on them, I wasn't aware of that. And I agree, they will be going down. I am going to aim for getting a new transmission. I don't even want them trying to fix it, because that's what I've tried to make them do since March and it obviously isn't happening. Even if I had paid him his money, there is STILL an additional problem with the transmission. It's wining my engine out and not shifting.

Jr. Mechanic, I think you are forgetting that my dodge ram pickup truck is not a camaro. A camaro could probably benefit from late shifts for maximizing power, but I use this truck work and daily driving, it's not normal for a truck to do that. I think that's what the transmission shop fails to remember too. They always said those hard shifts were performance shifts. Don't they realize it's a dodge ram pickup truck, it's not a racing vehicle. I'll let you guys all know how things go with the lawyer.

**PA where did you find the reviews on New England Transmission btw?

 

http://boston.citysearch.com/review/4749368

3/7 are bad ratings. The other 4 were probably people who got screwed with pricing and didnt realize it was probably something simple.

 

I saw that too but that's for one in Boston not the one he is using in South Portland, ME

 

Thats what im saying though, they might like it that way, you dont. Take 5 minutes to adjust the TV cable and get back with us. Hopefully if all is well, you can chalk all this up to experience and move on, at least you will have a good transmission.


Oh and home, the TV cable WILL effect it going into OD, the tighter it is the later the shifts are.

 

The TV cable does not control the shift into OD, if I remember what the experts here have told me. It controls 1-2 and 2-3, but the computer controls the shift from 3-4. How can the TV cable have anything to do with OD then?

 

I thought it was a heavy duty hi performance racing trans. It should shift more like his camaro than a truck. I'm not being a d&^k but isn't that what you wanted to begin with?

 

The computer DOES shift the transmission into OD, but the TV cable will have an effect on how late it goes into OD, think of it this way: You tighten the TV cable, and say it does not shift into 3rd until 35 or 40, do you still think OD is going to kick in at the normal time?

Tresvn, that was my point as well. When you get a heavy duty transmission built like that, the shifts will be harder, its supposed to shift hard.

 

I don't claim to understand transmissions 100%, not by a long shot, but why wouldn't it shift at the normal time? The TV cable doesn't supposedly adjust the OD shift at all, so the computer wouldn't care how you adjust that. Unless the programming is adjusted, the computer will kick it into OD at the same time every time (if you give it the same throttle every time), right?

I know some parts of the computer are adaptive-type programming, where it will learn, and unless the transmission is one of them, it shouldn't change the OD shift unless the programming is adjusted. I didn't think the OD shift was learned, I thought it was programmed. Right?

Just trying to understand here. Point out any errors in my thinking.

Perhaps his complaints about hard shifts were silly, but whether they were right or not, he didn't get a great racing tranny like they claimed, they claimed they would give him a new tranny when all they did was rebuild one, and there were always other problems, it wasn't just the hard shifts.

 

Now correct me if im wrong 01Dodge.. But i think the reason why Tresvn, was at the time when he had the tranny put in, he had the lift, and the large tires and needed that bigger, tougher tranny to keep up with it. Regardless, the man is being ripped off, and has been patient enough. I couldn't give my truck to a shop for more than a weekend and hes given it to them for a week, or 2 weeks now.