$cost to chang from 9spd man to full auto

Not my cup of tea either, but different strokes for different folks. Whatever makes him happy.

 

Unless the truck was new I would think it would probably be easier and cheaper to buy one that already has an auto/automated transmission. I could be wrong but that doesn't sound cheap.

 

If it can be done in a truck that old it will take allot of man hours and allot of money. A new tran can cost $10,000+. To redo a whole truck like this I'd bet your looking at $20,000 or better. And thats if you don't have to replace the engine to make it work.

 

Before you do it you want to try and find someone that has that engine, transmission combination. I did engines but where I worked we had some very good gear men and we were involved with the automatics from the very beginning. I drove trucks with "CATS" and auto shifts, and I drove the same year truck with a Detroit sixty series. One was as slow as the second coming, one was very impressive.

 

Hey, I'm in the process of replacing my RTLO-16913L-DM3 (UltraShift) with a RTLO-22918. PM me...

THX,
DrG

 

What transmission do you want to install?

Eaton Autoshift, ore Ultrashift< ore may be you would prefere ZF AsTronic?

 

your truck is going to have a 1587 and 1708 datalink. if i recall right, all of your auto transmission talk on j-1939 datalink. the 1587 and 1708 datalink is to slow. and i am pretty sure that engine will not support 1939. its kinda like having regular phone cable and cat 5 cable.

 

This problem may be easily solved for client's money. Early 3406E have no J1939, but it is possible to change ECM with newer (+ engine wiring harness + engine interface adapter).

To install ZF to DAF 95 we changed Celect with Celect + ECM (supports J1939), ran twisted pair to tranny, and put a pair of terminating resistors (120 ohm).

So add it in list