Why'd you upgrade the intermediate shaft before the input?

I thought you upgraded the input first, then the output, and the intermediate was good to like 700hp

 

Have to agree. The intermdiate is one of the last things to upgrade. Dont remember the exact numbers but it's well over 1000 TQ to brake an inermediate. Input is the main thing. And I'm sorry but I do not believe, along with others, that you need alto steels and red eagle clutchs. If we were dealing with a Ppump, Vp, or CR making big numbers then yeah, they're a good idea, but for what the VE is limited to they are in no way needed.

 

Yup, Input shaft is the 1st to go usually. Some on a budget leave the output as a weak link because you dont have to pull the tranny to replace it. I dont get this kinda thinkin but to each his own. As far as the intermediate shaft goes, my 05 is pushing 700+ hp and I have done boosted 4X4 launches on it and while I have a billet input and output, my intermediate is the stocker with 100K miles on it. They are pretty strong.

 

Not for strength - for oiling.

The upgraded intermediate shaft has the center drilled through so it passes fluid better to the parts riding on it.

 

Ohhh , gotcha.

 

The billet intermediate is for strength, for those that break them, typically from racing. 4wd drive launches with extreme boost and locked to locked shifts, will typically find the weak link in the driveline.

 

Right Fred...
That's where I'l probably end up but when you're retired you learn to watch the SS check VERY closely.

I'm hoping uncle sam feels generous at tax time and I can pick up a triple disk TC. I'm saving now - although slowly - for the billet in/out shafts and a complete VB rework.
I'd like to get all the work done this year but it'll probably be very late this year or early next.

What gets me is the ORIGINAL plans were to make the truck reliable for towing a 32' - 36' RV...About 10K max.
Then I had to get a 47RH for reliability and the lockup TC; then I got new sticks; then it was an Super40; then - then - then....
Now I see where RV makers are building the trailers lighter - by about 3K lbs.
SO - - - I'll have a truck that can tow 10K - 12K easily and end up buying a trailer that weighs ~ 8K

 

Well that's a good thing. Then you can haul booty. I know I can (if I want to) haulin my 5,000 lb 5er.

I love reading about the transmission stuff though, it's very interesting to me.

 

if you would ever like to share the wealth let me know!!!!

 

Ask Unixcowboy what price he paid for his 47RH. That was my 1st one.

The second one I set up a full conversion package for a guy with Tcase, cooler lines, block cooler, engine adapter, flex plate. That one went to WY as a trade for a getrag swap package.

I'll be using some of that package to install a G56 soon. I did a 1K drive yesterday to pick the G56 up.

 

I hope the price was right for that G56.

 

If I told that. Everyone would eather call me a thief or start crying.

I will say with all the trading and buying I have done recently. I am getting a G56 in my truck cheaper than the parts to rebuild an auto.

 

Well Philip I agree on your choice but I think the chain steering wheel and skull shifter **** will be a bit to much.

 

You are correct. I didn't use those items when the were the current fab back when. Those two items didn't improve with age eather.