my Allison tranny just blew up at 107K
Background: second owner...got it at 100K. First owner was religious about maintenance,,,he is an experimental aircraft pilot and motorcycle enthusiast. he gave me the extra tranny and oil filters he had as well as oil (all was AC delco). he used the truck mostly to tow a motorcycle trailer with one or three motorcylces depending. I used the truck to tow three times (two times were a half yard of concrete which I towed about 3 miles one way and one ingressol rand compressor trailer that I towed about three miles). The first sign was what felt like a kick from behind,,,then a terrible grinding noise.
towed in and mechanic said the flush plate I believe (it looked like a two sided flat disc ring with little raised splines inside, one side of its cover was in fragments) bearing shot out and went through the whole tranny messing it up....said all that was salvageable was the housing. I authorized the rebuild. This guy has a lot of good reviews. said he uses all AC delco and OE parts. picked it up day and half to two days later. driving home in rush hour (crawling basically) I felt another kick again and a bump when braking to a stop. then it shuddered the whole front of the truck when the tranny tried to upshift. never went over 20mph. had it towed. mechanic said his supplier gave him a 2008 gear train for my 2006 not realizing that the ratio(???) was different...mumbled something about 53 vs 56. Said the computer was not doing something and that he had the right part(s)? on the way. I asked him if any other parts would be messed up and I think he said would not matter since its a whole new ...... I don't know much about cars and especially about trannys. All I know it that Allison is supposed to be the best. I bought the truck mostly for that tranny as my ford I thought was junk.... Why at 107K with routine maintenance and easy towing? how are you able to fit the wrong part in there?
what is going on? A lady at Dynamic Systems (big trucks and tractors and Allison certified) said she cannot believe that bearing went out and cannot even get into reset GM computers.)
Help...very frustrated, and somewhat suspicious?
thanks in advance!!!
Background: second owner...got it at 100K. First owner was religious about maintenance,,,he is an experimental aircraft pilot and motorcycle enthusiast. he gave me the extra tranny and oil filters he had as well as oil (all was AC delco). he used the truck mostly to tow a motorcycle trailer with one or three motorcylces depending. I used the truck to tow three times (two times were a half yard of concrete which I towed about 3 miles one way and one ingressol rand compressor trailer that I towed about three miles). The first sign was what felt like a kick from behind,,,then a terrible grinding noise.
towed in and mechanic said the flush plate I believe (it looked like a two sided flat disc ring with little raised splines inside, one side of its cover was in fragments) bearing shot out and went through the whole tranny messing it up....said all that was salvageable was the housing. I authorized the rebuild. This guy has a lot of good reviews. said he uses all AC delco and OE parts. picked it up day and half to two days later. driving home in rush hour (crawling basically) I felt another kick again and a bump when braking to a stop. then it shuddered the whole front of the truck when the tranny tried to upshift. never went over 20mph. had it towed. mechanic said his supplier gave him a 2008 gear train for my 2006 not realizing that the ratio(???) was different...mumbled something about 53 vs 56. Said the computer was not doing something and that he had the right part(s)? on the way. I asked him if any other parts would be messed up and I think he said would not matter since its a whole new ...... I don't know much about cars and especially about trannys. All I know it that Allison is supposed to be the best. I bought the truck mostly for that tranny as my ford I thought was junk.... Why at 107K with routine maintenance and easy towing? how are you able to fit the wrong part in there?
what is going on? A lady at Dynamic Systems (big trucks and tractors and Allison certified) said she cannot believe that bearing went out and cannot even get into reset GM computers.)
Help...very frustrated, and somewhat suspicious?
thanks in advance!!!
