Splandman
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- Joined
- Jan 1, 2014
- Posts
- 265
- Reaction score
- 61
- Location
- Crescent, OK
- First Name
- Scott
- Truck Year
- 1982
- Truck Model
- K10
- Engine Size
- 383
This is why I suggest to people, Suck it up, bite the bullet, spend the money to go 4L80-E and buy the stand alone adjustable controller and weld the phukin hood shut and be done with it. 4-5 transmissions in 2 years is ridiculous. And by the time you bought all the upgrades that a 700r4 you could damn near pay for the 4L80-E.
With that much torque and probably spinning some good rpms, you need the input shaft sleeved, billet super hold servos, smart shell, wider kevlar bands, boost valve in the pump etc etc, the list goes on. Sonnax makes all those parts and after all those upgrades, you've still got a 700r4. You know what you get when you put lipstick on a pig? It's still a pig, just a little prettier.
Just saying, consider spending the cash and go 4L80-E. I wish I was set up to work on transmissions or I'd have you bring me that 700r4 and we'd put some **** in it and make it better. You're not to far from me.
What you are saying here is the same thing Larry Wilson over in Moore told me yesterday. He seemed pretty honest. Said he would rather not build me a 700r4 and that I should go TH 400 or 4L80E. The shop that has been building them is A&A over in Yukon.