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I’m planning to get back to truck camping by fall and spend a lot of time seeing the country. Life is short and I’m not getting any younger. I’ve had many trucks and campers and have been a loyal Do...
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burningman wrote:noteven wrote:
3 tons - take a look at a company in Florida called Custom Automatic Conversions they specialize in Allison to Cummins engine work.
Fewer and fewer people are making that mistake.
Swapping in an Allison is a $10,000++ proposition and it’s not worth it.
A properly built 47RE Dodge trans is actually stronger.
The bad reputation is all from people throwing power and weight at stock ones.
Consider this: a whole lot of Chevy race trucks running Duramax engines have Dodge 47REs swapped into them!!
Spend $5000-$7000 on building the Dodge trans instead.
But it’s only a good racing trans and grocery getter.
4 speeds behind a Cummins is like a power glide behind a half ton truck. Both s Uck for towing.
