Looking at 2005 Dodge 3500 for out Lance
A guy I work with has a 2005 Dodge 3500 crew dab 4x4 for sale. It's a diesel of course, automatic and 4x4. He has 180k miles on it with a transmission rebuild at 130k and the front end just rebuilt. H...
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Everything Msiminoff said was right except that wasn't "a few thousand dollars", all that stuff adds up to around $10,000. The Spintech hubs are outrageously expensive.
If that transmission was rebuilt the way it should be, that's a huge score. It's around $6000-ish to do a Dodge trans RIGHT. That means triple-disc torque converter, billet apply lever, better bands, billet input shaft, better valvebody that flows oil while in park (the stock one and most aftermarket ones don't!) and a host of other little internal goodies.
The one bad thing about the Common Rail Cummins ('03 and up) is as mentioned, really expensive injectors. But that's an issue with all the other brands too.
If I had it to do over, I'd look for an '06 Chevy/GMC with the Allison trans and LBZ Duramax. Actually I DO constantly look for one in 4x4 crewcab dually configuration in nice shape. Can't find. No one witb any sense will sell one. If you can find that, jump on it.
If that transmission was rebuilt the way it should be, that's a huge score. It's around $6000-ish to do a Dodge trans RIGHT. That means triple-disc torque converter, billet apply lever, better bands, billet input shaft, better valvebody that flows oil while in park (the stock one and most aftermarket ones don't!) and a host of other little internal goodies.
The one bad thing about the Common Rail Cummins ('03 and up) is as mentioned, really expensive injectors. But that's an issue with all the other brands too.
If I had it to do over, I'd look for an '06 Chevy/GMC with the Allison trans and LBZ Duramax. Actually I DO constantly look for one in 4x4 crewcab dually configuration in nice shape. Can't find. No one witb any sense will sell one. If you can find that, jump on it.
