As many of you know, my transmission kicked the bucket and completely locked up @ 80mph this past weekend.
So Ihave it in the shop, and the guy took it out yesterday. Hes taking it apart today, but he said its probably going to need tobe rebuilt/replaced from the symptoms/sounds he was hearing. Hes estimating cost to be around $1600-1800 (also changing the oil and replacing my lower control arm) Turns out the lower control arm is bent from something, explaining the knocking noise ive heard in the suspension lately.
So my question are these: Is the transmission worth rebuilding? If so, which kit is the best and the most complete?
At $1500 (transmission stuff only) would it be cheaper to just get a factory rebuilt transmission and put that in instead? That way im not paying labor on the rebuild (a vast majority of the cost since the Mopar Master rebuild kit is only $400ish)?
I know many are going to say go get a cheap SE transmission and put it in myself.
But with school I simply dont have time to take it apart and check the itnernals, and then if something were to ever happen then id have to pay labor again. While with a rebuild/factory replacement if anything were to happen it wouldnt be any additional cost to myself.
Need some info fast. Ill update this thread with exactly what happened to the transmission as soon as he takes it apart and lets me know.
So Ihave it in the shop, and the guy took it out yesterday. Hes taking it apart today, but he said its probably going to need tobe rebuilt/replaced from the symptoms/sounds he was hearing. Hes estimating cost to be around $1600-1800 (also changing the oil and replacing my lower control arm) Turns out the lower control arm is bent from something, explaining the knocking noise ive heard in the suspension lately.
So my question are these: Is the transmission worth rebuilding? If so, which kit is the best and the most complete?
At $1500 (transmission stuff only) would it be cheaper to just get a factory rebuilt transmission and put that in instead? That way im not paying labor on the rebuild (a vast majority of the cost since the Mopar Master rebuild kit is only $400ish)?
I know many are going to say go get a cheap SE transmission and put it in myself.
But with school I simply dont have time to take it apart and check the itnernals, and then if something were to ever happen then id have to pay labor again. While with a rebuild/factory replacement if anything were to happen it wouldnt be any additional cost to myself.
Need some info fast. Ill update this thread with exactly what happened to the transmission as soon as he takes it apart and lets me know.