Jeremy Young

Yeah unfortunately it seems like from what everyone is telling me at local shops along with transmission shops that is my torque converter. I wish I could just replace the torque converter they have one in stock at the local Chevy dealership only 450 bucks, compared to the $4300 rebuild. I had the transmission flushed again the other day and the fluid looked great I didn’t see and neither did the shop, any metallic or shavings. But I know that doesn’t mean anything

This truck is 100% stock, nothing at all has been done to it. Truck was running and driving excellent and one day on my way home from fishing trip on the back highway I passed a vehicle and in order to pass them I throttled hard it shifted down as it should pass the vehicle after passing them I decelerated and it started to me it seems like what happened is that the high rpm obviously something inside the torque converter let loose

That’s what I thought also is that it’s only the eight speed but when I took it to multiple dealerships all three of them suggested the same solution to flush it multiple times and put in the fluid whatever it is that stops the shudder I’m not disagreeing that it is only the eight speed that does it this is just what the dealership did I think what it is is just downright torque converter failure it does the same thing as people are describing with their shudder it feels like I’m driving on the rumble strips and shifting around erratically as I’m cruising down the highway the RPMs fluctuate just like the shudder issue does and I have bump shift, I do agree it may be a waste of time to do just the torque converter when material from this one is almost guaranteed to be floating around in the fluid... I have searched around for a used one from the wrecking yards but cannot seem to find one mine has the toe button on my shifter the only one I found does not have the tow package. Plus if you put a used one of them isn’t there programming involved? Thank you guys

Hello Gents, I have the notorious torque converter shudder in my 2016 1500 LT with the 5.3 6 speed. I had the flush done and the new style fluid and additive put in from the dealership..... NO CHANGE. Took her over to AAMCO and they diagnosed it as a torque converter failure as did another Chevy dealership. My question is rather than paying the $4300 to the dealer for a full rebuild why not buy the $450 converter from the dealer and put it in myself. I don’t have $4300 laying around after buying a $27k truck 6 months ago..... for me the converter swap is easy work I just don’t know if there is programming or other issues I may run into? Thank you