john&bet wrote:
Here is my story on a '97 Chevy express 2500 van,gvw of 7800#, with a Vortec 350 engine. I did not own this truck, but was given it by the company I worked for as a service truck. At 49k the trans went out. No towing. They put in a factory reman. and guess what. It went out at 97k, still no towing. They had a local shop rebuild it and I drove it till it had 133k on it in Jan. of '09. I retired and they retired the truck.
My parents had a '96 Express 1500 that went thru 3 transmissions in 100k miles, too. Not much towing.
They traded that in on a '99 Suburban 1500, which did 280k miles on one transmission. which was working just fine when they finally retired it.
You just never know ...
