05 dodge 5.9 cummins reliability?
Hello, my son is looking at a o5 2500 crew cab long bed 4x4. I know about tranny probs but this one is a straight drive. I also know the frontend issues in some of them. I would like to know about the...
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donn0128 wrote:
Not sure what transmission problems you thing you have heard about. The 48RE is nearly bullet proof as long as no one has added a tuner to the motor.
That year 5.9 was about as strong as they get. Many many of them have over 200K on then and still running strong.
X2 Adding a tuner released a lot of extra horsepower that purposely was not made available in the Ram truck. The extra horsepower likely caused a lot of transmission failures. ( The 47e tranny was weak to start with)
When I was a a gear head and had my hands under the hood, my truck driver father would ask: "What makes you think you are smarter than the people who built the darn thing?"
That is my now my position on tuners. You can not out engineer the engineers with good long term results.
