tranny just quit!?

**cascott325** · 08-21-2009, 12:55 AM

today started out as a good day, my fiance called into work, we both got to sleep in, we got to do some planning for the wedding, i went with my friend to shop for guns, we went out and shot some, took my potato gun too, shot it, found out it shoots 300 yards

, when i left my dads, i had no problem at all, pulled into my friends driveway, everything was fine and dandy, as i backed out of his driveway, still nothing was wrong UNTIL i put it in drive.... strange sound and a weird shift, very hard to explain. immediately i thought , " oh god! my transmission is going out" and hoped for the best, drove great all the way through the gears after i got out of first. came to a stop sign, barely shifted down into first. tried to accelerate, and it was like i had the emergency brake on, put it in reverse, and the same thing. luckily i was right in front of a body shop. i pulled into their parking lot nice and easy. as i shifted past neutral and into reverse came this awful sound, grinding, ticking and clacking, i parked it and went inside. talked o one of the guys in there, and he tried it out, reverse, drive, both had this gut wrenching sound. i have a wedding to pay for, been laid off for 5 weeks, and now my transmission has gone out with no warning what so ever. it was like someone flipped a switch.

i had it towed to my uncles shop, and he is going to diagnose the problem in the morning. i will keep yall posted. hopefully its something somewhat minor (unlikely). if anyone can give me some uplifting advise, i really need it. its like i lost a best friend

**cascott325** · 08-21-2009, 03:18 PM

well, i have been told that the tranny is toast, warm buttery toast.

my uncle has a shop, but he does not get intimate with tranny's, he would just do a swap with a re- manufactured jasper tranny. total cost with labor would be around $1700 with a 100k mile 3 year warranty

for a rebuild with a shift kit, commercial grade 3-4 clutch and a 1 year warranty would be total $1500

**johnannette** · 08-21-2009, 03:29 PM

that stinks hope everything works out hang in there.

**Blownchevy05** · 08-21-2009, 04:14 PM

sounds like you burnt the clutches on the tranny. good luck with the build..

**Jimmiee** · 08-21-2009, 07:37 PM

That's bad news for sure. Tell you uncle to price out a Goodwrench Transmission for you. There's nothing wrong with Jasper Transmissions but the Goodwrench has a 3 year 100K nationwide warranty.

**retired** · 08-21-2009, 08:21 PM

GM's waranty is the same as Jaspers but Jasper doesn't give you a bunch of crap if it blows up on you. Get the Jasper trans.

**2COR517** · 08-21-2009, 08:59 PM

I would go Jasper or local rebuild.

**Jimmiee** · 08-22-2009, 10:56 AM

I thought Jasper had a 70K warranty. They must have increased it. I have been to the Jasper manufacturing plant and watched them build transmissions. They do a very good job and everything is gone over with a fine tooth comb. The valve bodies are taken all the way apart, cleaned and assembled by a team of woman in a glass room! <G>

Jim

**2ToNe04** · 08-22-2009, 06:15 PM

i hope your uncle hooks u up with a good price.

**5speedsilverado** · 08-22-2009, 10:45 PM

wow, that sucks, at least it didn't sound as bad as my neighbors 07 classic silverado, he started to take off, and it made a loud boom, like someone had rear ended him, and popped into neutral. he had to back it into the parking lot cause it wouldn't move forward after that