Well, I'll second Bruce, the newer Chevies are powerful, but
they have problems. As for the tranny, now a days, automatics
that last over 100K is kinda rare. Blame it on our disposible
society, but most of the modern trannies just don't last. Not even
the "100K guaranteed" trannies that many manufactures are
toting will come close to making it to that bench mark.
You can rebuild it for an outrageous price, or you can
put in a used one (assuming you aren't planning to do the
labor yourself....) Its usually by far more economical to
go with a used one. Many junk yards even offer warranties (!!)
with their used trannies. I did one under an insurance deal
a week ago, where the junk yard came with a 7 year/70K mile
warranty!! And this was on a Jeep tranny that failed at 18K miles!
Even as the mechanic, I don't see how you could argue that....
think the junk yard charged $500. Would have been multiple
thousands to get the old one rebuilt.
As for the injector problem, you didn't list any details, but
the Vortex had problem with their spider injector set ups,
and they were real smart to form them into the plastic intake.
Without knowing the symptoms, I won't make too many guesses,
but I've had to replace a couple of these....they fail, and they
are spendy.
Replacing filters based off of the amount of gas you put in
the rig isn't a very good way of judging it. These are open-looped
fueled injection systems, so no matter how much or how
little you use the gas, the gas is being cycled through the
filter and pump constantly. More often is better than not enough.
I usually suggest every 30K miles, which is quite a bit different
than most manuals. I pretty much ignore the manual on this
and several other subjects. But thats a whole nother subject....
Ryan
rlangford@attbi.com
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