Phat Pat Posted February 3, 2004 Report Share Posted February 3, 2004 my tranny is either in need of a rebuild or replacement. my question is about cost of a rebuild, vs a new (performance) transmission, vs. a manual swap obviously Im willing to pay more for replacement, but if its going to be too high I'll just deal with it until I can save up for a new (well, used, but you get the idea) car because this isnt the end of what it needs, and I want a GTP damnit, lol. any help would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteOut Posted February 3, 2004 Report Share Posted February 3, 2004 The complete rebuild of my 4T65e including a new torque converter, planetary gear set, and all valves, cluthes, bands, etc... ran me about $1800 earlier this summer. Thats a worst case scenario. My reverse reaction drum litterally exploded and scattered itself throughout the transmission which nessecitated the replacement of a lot of items which other wise weren't bad. In fact the only problem my tranny had was slight wear on the 1-2 band from what the tech told me, other than that there was just a lot of scarring on parts from where shards of the drum went through the tranny. Anyways, if you don't think you need a torque converter you can chop about $500-600 off of that figure. Expect to pay about $300-500 for a used 4T65e tranny at a junk yard. I've heard that you can pick up a complete junked 5 speed w-body for around $500-750 at most junk yards, plus when your done ripping the trans and needed parts out you can always sell it back to the yard for a couple hundred. So if you install it yourself you'd definitely save money if you went that way, assuming of coarse that the manual tranny isn't in need of a rebuild itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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