Those transmissions are just as crappy in the gassers. I wouldn't buy one with an automatic. However I was just trying to point out that if someone buys one around that mileage, if the last guy didn't do the trans, he will be very soon.
Funny the auto equipped trucks get the higher output engines. I might also point out that there are a ton of upgrades for this transmission. Practically every diesel drag racer uses this trans.
Funny, in the years of cummins pickups I had, the standards had the higher hp rating. You can argue me, but I have known too many guys who have shelled out 3-4k for a transmission job because the automatic in their cummins crapped out somewhere on the side of the road far from home where they had no choice but to eat the repair cost at a shop. Those 4sp autos were junk, just look at how many are for sale with transmission problems. It shouldn't take thousands in upgrades to make one live behind a stock 5.9.
