Well now, here we are a full week from sending the truck off to Cottmens Transmission. I can understand the delay a little considering that last week was the New Years Weekend. I spend Monday and Tuesday calling to find out if they figured out what was really wrong yet. On Tuesday they finally had the brake down of what was wrong and how much it would cost. Apparently the Torque Converter blow up on the inside, this is the main issue that caused the Truck to stop moving. After that parts of the impellor got sucked into the pump to wreak havoc there and move on into the rest of the transmission. In the end we need to have the transmission completely rebuilt.

The rebuild entails a new Torque Converter ($298), a new Pump ($265), a standard rebuild kit ($1200), and the labor of diagnosing the problem ($398). This is a little more than I was hoping for in the beginning. This basically went form an $800 project that we could have easily afforded to a $2360 project after you add taxes. I hat it when there is a problem with the cars that I can not fix myself.

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