Originally Posted By 135sohc
The steel end cap/cover plate on the valve body can come loose from the cycling of the accumulator pistons. IF caught early enough it can be fixed with some blue loctite and a inch pounds torque wrench before the plate gets bent up.

Otherwise Sonnax offers a fix in the form of a LINK new plate.

Of course if your going that far then you might as well do the accumulator piston sleeve kits as well and be done with it LINK .

02-03 has the black connector solenoid pack, if replacing it chrysler requires the CAM plate to be replaced as well.

Overall the RFE has proven to be a decent unit, plenty of them out there and most of the glitches have been found by now and remedied. Any retard with a heavy foot will find a weakness.


Plenty of retards on hemitruckclub then. Guys are burning them up doing normal performance driving, they especially seem susceptible to kicking it down to 2nd gear (like when you're going to pass someone like a retard) and killing themselves. It's not like they're doing neutral drops with them.

For guys doing performance mods, the remedy is to put in a 46 RH/RE (after the deficiencies have been fixed). Theirs been a few companies try and build an RFE that'll take mods/performance driving but no ones seemed to be able to get one to live yet.

As I stated, in a normal truck driven normally the RFE seems to be really good, start givin er to much and you run a risk of smoking the trans. Again, don't believe me, hemitruckclub is full of horror stories