Destroyed my sunshell! THE BEAST!
05-18-2011, 01:33 AM
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Agreed! I been wanting a mail order tune but the I live at high elevation so I been looking for someone local. I think you all may be right though. The sun shell is defective, hell the dealer even told me it should have been recalled. It is a heavy truck and big wide tires so maybe it isnt a good thing to have it chirping second.
05-18-2011, 01:56 AM
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I am still with the Diablo. I just adjusted the shift pressure. I would love a custom tune but I can wait. I am getting ready to buy an s-10 to be my daily so I can go ***** out with the silvy. No big rush. keep in touch and let me know when you are back! 
05-19-2011, 06:35 PM
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The builder also does all the racing transmissions for our drag cars and dirt cars. 2 of em which is running high 9's in a quarter and never had a problem. I think the sun shell was just defective to begin with. Even the the folks that make the beast told me they have received a lot of issues with this batch that is being recalled.
Right now I am rocking a 4l60e from the junkyard that had extremely black fluid in it - vette servo, transgo, and a tune.. I am even using my old stall that had some metal in it. 14k miles strong still, still shifts pretty good too. I have the tune/shift kit setup to just 'lightly' chirp 2nd.
11-13-2012, 03:25 PM
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Beast Sunshell Broke
I own a 2002 Silverado 4x4 and the original sunshell I guess broke as I needed a new one and a complete transmission rebuild. This happened in 2009 at 53000 miles and a "Beast Sunshell was installed. I read sunshells installed at the factory were weak. I am the only owner and this truck gets no abuse what so ever. My wife drives it to church about 20 miles a day, and I occasionally use it when I go fishing. The beast sunshell broke with 26000 miles on it just like the one shown in the pics. I will add my pics as well. The "beast" is not all it's cracked up to be, no pun intended. The transmission shop says it now put a hardened GM Sunshell which is as good or better than the beast. The shop owner gave me his word and a handshake that if this happened again he would fix it free of charge. He would not give it to me in writing. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
11-13-2012, 04:23 PM
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I own a 2002 Silverado 4x4 and the original sunshell I guess broke as I needed a new one and a complete transmission rebuild. This happened in 2009 at 53000 miles and a "Beast Sunshell was installed. I read sunshells installed at the factory were weak. I am the only owner and this truck gets no abuse what so ever. My wife drives it to church about 20 miles a day, and I occasionally use it when I go fishing. The beast sunshell broke with 26000 miles on it just like the one shown in the pics. I will add my pics as well. The "beast" is not all it's cracked up to be, no pun intended. The transmission shop says it now put a hardened GM Sunshell which is as good or better than the beast. The shop owner gave me his word and a handshake that if this happened again he would fix it free of charge. He would not give it to me in writing. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
Nice screen name and first post. Your going to get lots of positive attention coming on a mostly gm site with that SN. Thats like me walking into a black church and screaming out hail KKK.
Oh and welcome
