Not doubting you or the techs, but what were the symptoms of overheat?
The only reliable one I know of from outside the transmission, is dark brown burnt smelling fluid.
If you have that, and you are sure it came out of your transmission, then you will be making a decision fairly soon.
However, make sure you saw the fluid come out. I personally know of a transmission shop in town that keeps bottles of the worst fluid they see to show to a customer when they need some extra cash.
Odds are, if the lines are crushed, it will be burnt due to lack of cooling.
Not sure how the fluid runs in that tranny, but restricted flow to the cooling might cause some of the other leaks.
Also, if the clutches are burnt enough, some of your high rpm might have been due to slippage.
If you are looking at a rebuild, obviously you need to consider swaps for other models.
Just keep this in mind.
When you are talking transfer cases, the 205 is in a class by its self. Lots of folks don't like it because its not geared low enough, uses more gas than a chain drive, yadda yadda.
But no one ever calls it weak.
Ask around here, anyone who puts it down, if their life was on the line, the lava was creeping up, and they were about to dump everything their engine could put out into the transfer case and would live or die depending on whether or not it stood the load, which model they would choose?
Same goes for transmissions.
I don't know what the equivelent would be in a Dodge, but in a GM product, the TH400 stands alone.
I am sure that some of the new overdrive units are as good, but the 400 is what they will be compared against.
Same for a Ford. A properly updated C6 with enough cooling, I would stand against anybody.
Heck, Ford used a slightly modified C6 in some of their tractors!
If you need the overdrive, keep bugging folks here, find out which transmission will handle the load, find someone who has done the swap, start rounding up parts and making a plan.
But if you decide to rebuild what you have got, rest assured that you will have a setup that can run with anything in your class with no problems.
Didn't mean to go off on a rant, but it has always ticked me off that GM had a transmission better than 90% of what was out there, and dropped it.
At least when Ford dropped the C6, they had a transmission rated to replace it. The E4OD.
It didn't replace it well, but that was due to bugs in the control design more than anything else.
I hear now, that it is as good as the C6 was. Of course, they do say that it is as good as......
Be interested in comments about my take on the TH400 from folks more in the know than me.
Especially what replaces it.
J.
The only reliable one I know of from outside the transmission, is dark brown burnt smelling fluid.
If you have that, and you are sure it came out of your transmission, then you will be making a decision fairly soon.
However, make sure you saw the fluid come out. I personally know of a transmission shop in town that keeps bottles of the worst fluid they see to show to a customer when they need some extra cash.
Odds are, if the lines are crushed, it will be burnt due to lack of cooling.
Not sure how the fluid runs in that tranny, but restricted flow to the cooling might cause some of the other leaks.
Also, if the clutches are burnt enough, some of your high rpm might have been due to slippage.
If you are looking at a rebuild, obviously you need to consider swaps for other models.
Just keep this in mind.
When you are talking transfer cases, the 205 is in a class by its self. Lots of folks don't like it because its not geared low enough, uses more gas than a chain drive, yadda yadda.
But no one ever calls it weak.
Ask around here, anyone who puts it down, if their life was on the line, the lava was creeping up, and they were about to dump everything their engine could put out into the transfer case and would live or die depending on whether or not it stood the load, which model they would choose?
Same goes for transmissions.
I don't know what the equivelent would be in a Dodge, but in a GM product, the TH400 stands alone.
I am sure that some of the new overdrive units are as good, but the 400 is what they will be compared against.
Same for a Ford. A properly updated C6 with enough cooling, I would stand against anybody.
Heck, Ford used a slightly modified C6 in some of their tractors!
If you need the overdrive, keep bugging folks here, find out which transmission will handle the load, find someone who has done the swap, start rounding up parts and making a plan.
But if you decide to rebuild what you have got, rest assured that you will have a setup that can run with anything in your class with no problems.
Didn't mean to go off on a rant, but it has always ticked me off that GM had a transmission better than 90% of what was out there, and dropped it.
At least when Ford dropped the C6, they had a transmission rated to replace it. The E4OD.
It didn't replace it well, but that was due to bugs in the control design more than anything else.
I hear now, that it is as good as the C6 was. Of course, they do say that it is as good as......
Be interested in comments about my take on the TH400 from folks more in the know than me.
Especially what replaces it.
J.
