East central Alabama. I got an estimate from a local guy with a small trans. shop that said he could rebuild it for $1,250 and he'd give me a 6 month warranty. I thought it was a good deal.

 

Got the truck back and all is well $1270 later (had some other minor things done). Now the next project will be mounting a set of lights (probably Hella 500FF) on the brush guard to help illuminate those dark back country roads.

 

now wait a minuate................no 3-4 shift COULD be an electrical problem...lets think about this for a sec what does the tranny use to know when and how to shift??????? sensors...and what does it use to actually shift????? solinoids..... all electrical Items!!!!! Now Im not saying that the tranny doesnt need a rebuild but there is the possibility that it does not especially if it showed no signs of problems before this incident.....lets think this one through a little more guys

 

Hey Blake, sorry it cost you $1270, but good to hear you're back on the road. Would really suck to spend and that's not the problem entirely. Warranty don't hurt, either. Transmissions ain't my bag - I'd leave it to the pros, too.

 

Sure it could be electrical. But I would bet a paycheck it was the clutch packs and/or output drum. It's a 4L60e. They suck. And those are usually the things that break.

Blake said he got it fixed - he can post up what was wrong with it. A paycheck says it wasn't electrical.

 

It actually was the 3rd and 4th clutches. They just decided it was to time to go out after 221,483 miles... I think it was time for a rebuild anyways.

I know this is off topic but, have any of you guys seen the projection headlight conversions for the 1500's? I thought about getting a set of those for my truck and I saw a place on the internet that had the set for like $135 on sale what do yall think?

 

...surprise...

 

ok heres what going on we have a 1996 chev K1500 silverado 4X4 we just got the tanny rebuilt and its all new on the inside and it shifts the first time but still will not shift in to 2 shift and the wire harness in the tranny is new and all the sensors new to. can you all help me out with this im about ready to pull my hair out . we put the tranny in and had to take it back out and take it back to the place were we had it rebiult at . so the we got it back and put it back in the truck and still will not shift in to 2 .

 

is the tranny full of fluid????? how many quarts did you put in it????? otherwise it sounds like a valve body issue.

 

ya the tranny is fullof fuild we put 11 quarts in it and it was showing full on the dipstick . I dont thing the man changed out the valve body on it . i will have to find that part out .