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Old 04-17-2008, 08:20 PM
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I lost all gears even reverse and neutral on my way home tonight. It started when it shifted into 2ed and then the transmission made some horrific noises with a bad vibration in the whole drive train. I drove it for about two miles in third gear then everything just locked up, I can't even put my truck into neutral and push it. I checked the rear end just to make sure it was not that, the whole gear train in my trans just exploded. Sorry for the long post I really just wanted to vent and share my experince on what happen to me tonight.
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That fuggin sucks, will warranty cover it you think?
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Wow that does suck. Hopefully your rear end and other components are still ok.
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I don't think it will be covered by warrenty because I have almost 60,000 miles on it, and I don't have the extended warrenty. I'm pretty sure that my very hard 1-2 shift is what blew up my trans, I never did get a good tune after I installed the shift kit and servro . I think I'm going to give FLT a call in the morning and see about a Level 4.
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The same exact thing happened to me... except there wasn't any noise stopped at a light and it wouldn't move... still don't know what caused it though... I'm thinking it was due to a nelson tune though it was running perfectly fine until I put the updated tune in... I'm thinking they bumped the line pressure on it...
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That sucks, you guys are hard on them things
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We should put up a sticky memorializing all the 4l60Exploders.
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Time for a built tranny...

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yep going with the 4L80E this time...
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Ive been that guy....

80E fixed the problem....


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