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Fastass350:
Looking at buying a reman for my 04 Cummins. Little back story… got 200k from the original trans, about 60 when rebuilt from a shop I know with a good rep, took it back when a planetary gear broke a tooth and locked it up twisting the intermediate shaft. He didn’t do a full rebuild just replaced the parts and new converter. Now 30k later reverse is toast. I could tear it apart and replace the band but I use it to tow for my business and need to rely on it.

That said, I’m looking at either BD or ATS. Anyone have any recommendations for one over the other?

Born2late:
I have a bd in one of my 2nd gens and hate it. I tow with my truck daily and can only tow with that truck in cool weather or it heats up. I had to put a tranny cooler on it also. It is in a 98-1/2 Cummins.
I had a local guy build my one for my 96 and it is awesome, runs cool shifts good and hasn’t given me a single problem. I have a 96 megacab that I’m building that he will be building my transmission for.
I would check out ats out of your 2 options and talk to them and be very specific in the conditions you’ll be running it in and what you want out of it. That way they understand your expectations.
Good luck and let us now what happens, I always like to here feed back on dodges, we have 6 of them.

baker5150:
Firepunk
Hands down best there is.
You won’t regret it.

Fastass350:
Thanks for the info I’ll cross BD off my list. What’s the name of the shop in Spokane maybe I’ll take mine into him.

I looked a little at firepunk but hadn’t heard of them before so I didn’t look much. I’ll look into them more.

Buckhunter24:
I got great service from Louies in Spokane years back. The owner really knew his stuff and was out in the shop both times I went in. Rode in the passenger seat up and down I90 with me after he rebuilt it to make sure I was happy

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