92AWDHX40
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- May 22, 2007
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Kalamazoo,
Michigan
my needs for now street and a bit of fun here and there mostly reiliable so im good on that but no 10 second car next will be build for drag and street.
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BooAutomatic......
I went with Shepherd to build my transmission because of his reputation in the DSM community, I didn't want to budget a transmission build and regret it later. I sent them my '99 M/T and 1mo. I got my stage IV (w/ 4 spider CD, LSD, Evo 1st, 3rd, 4th gear and REM ISF treatment) and I couldn't have been happier.
Seems very minuscule but the first 6mos. I had it I couldn't keep a working VSS for more than 2 days before my speedo would stop working. I'd pull it out and it would have a flat edge on the teeth, the transmission kept eating them up. I'd order a new one ($20 from the dealer) for a '97-'99 M/T, installed it, and less than 100 miles it would eat the teeth of the VSS gear again and I'd order a new one. I thought maybe I was installing them wrong, etc. After the 4th one and $100 later I called Shep and told him my problem and he said, "Oh, yea, we might have installed a '95-'96 speedo gear in the transmission by accident. Try installing a '95-'96 VSS gear in there and see if it fixes the problem." So, installing a '95-'96 gear did fix the problem which means who knows what else they "accidentally" installed in my $4,000.00 to my door step transmission?
Currently, it's still performing good. Change the fluid every year (no matter how little mileage I put on it) with their recommended 50/50 MT-90 and LW Shockproof mixture, even though every DSM transmission builder besides them recommends against it. It's just the fact that I paid how much for the Shep name and what kind of attention to detail was used during the rebuild? I could have gone to TRE or DSM transmission builder and had the same result, I wouldn't have paid the Shep price for it though.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great transmission but I wouldn't pay the Shep price for it again since IMO it wasn't worth it.