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Old 08-21-2018, 01:15 AM
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these are the 8 wires going from truck to transmission does anyone have something like this for the 4 wire transmissions?
i put in a new transmission on my 1996 2500 ram the problem i am having is the shift wires there are 8 but on the transmission i put in has only 4 not sure what happened but I found what the 8 wires do but i cant find anywhere about the 4 wire transmission and what they do
 
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You put in the wrong trans, and it simply isn't going to work. The 'four wire' (should be three?) is an RH trans, the 8 wire, is an RE. Difference is how the governor works. In the older transmissions, it is mechanical, in the newer ones, its electronic. The two systems are not interchangeable.
 



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