Manual or Automatic?

manuel all the way, I like to know I am controling the truck

 

My other 3500 had the 48RE. I liked it but it just needed a gear or two more which the 68RE has now. It also took its own sweet time between shifts, which we all know raises temps.

With the G56 on this truck I can downshift and scrub off speed faster than the auto, thus saving the admittedly inadequate brakes. I'm pondering an exhaust brake and a front brake upgrade.

 

I have an auto. but my next truck will be manual

 

i like the auto...manual would be great if you never got stuck in traffic like the whole counrty is getting. the new auto trannys are tough these days i guess it just boils down to personal preference.....

 

I have a 92 chevy 1/2 ton that has been beaten severly from plowing the last 12 years, with 190K and a second 350, it finally 'gave up the ghost' and died. It was a 700R4.

If your RPM's are too high w/ 6spd, why not go with gear vendors O/D? Then you have 12 to pick from and a better OD.

 

Very true.

 

Manual please. My experience with dodge auto's has been less than admirable. Remember when pulling hills, What goes up must come down at the same speed mind you.

 

I guess Im a control freak but you jst don't have the control over chanig gears with an automatic that you get in a manual for obvious reasons. Unless they stop making manuals I won't ever buy another auto.

Justin

 

I agree with the traffic issue. Too much traffic around here, so my preference is auto.

 

The Dodge auto in my opinon have never really held up well, now the manual are a completely diffrent story.