Not my cup of tea either, but different strokes for different folks. Whatever makes him happy.
$cost to chang from 9spd man to full auto
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by WallyGator, Feb 24, 2010.
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he had a stroke and thinks it would better suit his situation.I prefer a 13spd myself..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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he wants to buy a wrecked truck and switch out the trannys.the trucks one of my old ones.seems weird it might get an auto.LOL
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Hey, I'm in the process of replacing my RTLO-16913L-DM3 (UltraShift) with a RTLO-22918. PM me...
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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.
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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
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