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Old Jan 27, 2010 | 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Sheriff420
46RE (a518) is the one with problems.
The 46re and 46rh are the same tranny except one is mostly hydraulic and one is all electrically controlled...besides the gov pressure sensor and maybe a little wiring they share pretty much all the rest of the same weaknesses...
 
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Old Jan 27, 2010 | 11:09 AM
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exactly, governor pressure solenoid/sensor is problematic when the screen on the solenoid gets clogged with clutch dust.
that and the oem torque converters are crap.
 
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Old Jan 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Augiedoggy
they share pretty much all the rest of the same weaknesses...
I never found any weakness in mine.
 
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Old Jan 28, 2010 | 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by halfamil
I never found any weakness in mine.
We all know you have a special truck. I guess the guys on the assembly line had a good day when they made yours. I'm hoping that mine will last for as many miles as yours. what are you up to now? i know your sig says 446500, but you said that you drive 30k a year.
 
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Old Jan 28, 2010 | 06:53 AM
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You know, I never thought of my truck as "special" until I found this forum.Then I found out there is some problems with Rams. When it got to 350k, I started to think,"this is a damn good truck" I was averaging 40 a year for several years, when work was good. It"s getting close to 448k now. Your truck should last forever, as much knowlege as you have....Tom
 
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Old Jan 28, 2010 | 08:17 AM
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when you hit a half a million you should contact dodge and see if they want to do a promo deal. i saw where k&n gave a guy a free truck when he hit one million miles on the same air filter and this other story where a little old lady was on the news because she hit a half million with her car that she bought new in the 60's.
 
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Old Jan 28, 2010 | 08:38 AM
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Anything free sounds good to me.Unless I go back to work, it might take a while to put 52k on her. That's ok, she deserves to be babied a little. She has had a hard life.LOL
 
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Old Jan 28, 2010 | 08:49 AM
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i don't think i've ever seen your truck. why don't you have an album with any pictures in it?
 
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 08:23 AM
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I didn't have camera til lately. I'll be posting some pics soon. It's not really much to look at but, it's not a rag either. More of a plain Jane, white with light tan int. no rust.
 
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