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Well i finally changed my old transmission out this weekend. 197k miles and it lost the sprags. For any of you DIY guys, watch those dowels that hold it in, mine were seized and it took me longer to get it worked off of the dowels than it did to put the whole thing back together. I also broke one of the studs on the exhaust manifold, and drilling it out was the biggest PITA i have ever known. It ended up taking a titanuim bit, and a bottle jack under the drill. i just couldnt fit in the wheel well and put pressure needed on the stud. Now to the good news. It runs 10x better, the pickup now that it is not slipping is like being in a new truck. i have been driving a 07 GMC 900 for the last 6 weeks, and i now remember how "trucky" the 800's are, i love it. whole thing cost me about $850, and a weekend of my time. thanks for the replies from those who helped he through the process. hopefully this will keep me going till the 09' dmaxes come out, then this ones retired.

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yah it lives on at least for one more semester. i mean GM would really have to screw up for me to switch brands after this truck, its been asked to do things that werent safe/smart over and over and never backed down. The 900's are looking good too, the one i was driving towed this one down to houston on a 2000# car hauler and it held 70 mph(in 3rd) and tranny never got over 180. got 11 mpg doing it too. I was saying to someone earlier its like going from a BMW to a Mack, but theres something bout the 800 that reminds me of all the stuff its done for me. Hopefully itll last awhile so i can retire it to a ranch/fishing/mudding truck here in a year or two.

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yah it lives on at least for one more semester. i mean GM would really have to screw up for me to switch brands after this truck, its been asked to do things that werent safe/smart over and over and never backed down. The 900's are looking good too, the one i was driving towed this one down to houston on a 2000# car hauler and it held 70 mph(in 3rd) and tranny never got over 180. got 11 mpg doing it too. I was saying to someone earlier its like going from a BMW to a Mack, but theres something bout the 800 that reminds me of all the stuff its done for me. Hopefully itll last awhile so i can retire it to a ranch/fishing/mudding truck here in a year or two.

I go from driving one of the topkicks at work around for 14 hours then I hop in my bucket of bolts and it's like driving a bmw.

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