My son has a 93 Grand Caravan with a 3.3 liter V6 . It won't go into gear. Anybody know what type transmission is in it and ballpark price for a rebuild including the torque converter? Sorry for this dumb question but my kid's in another state, is out of town and his wife can't even figure out how to pop the hood - is it safe to assume this has overdrive?
Many thanks.
Chet42
05-06-2006, 02:38 PM
You have the A-604 4 speed. If you need a rebuild a shop will charge approx between $1700.00 to $2400.00 US, depending were you go. Some shops labour charges are higher. If you buy a reman from Chrysler its around $2500.00, includes the install and a 3 year/36,000 mile warranty, were the rebuild is usually only 12 months or 12,000 miles.
Please stay way from AAMCO transmission shops!!!!!
Chet.
shelbydodgeimp
05-07-2006, 10:46 PM
Actually that chrysler remade price is a bit on the low side, I would say more around $3500 for that.
My racing spec build was a tad under $3k, 1k of which was just performance parts.
Chet42
05-08-2006, 12:17 AM
The price on the reman musta went up since i bought mine for $2900.00 Canadian or $2550.00 US up here in Canada back in 98.
Inflation...
Regards
Chet.
blanketboy
05-08-2006, 12:23 AM
Thanks for your replies.
I've now talked to a couple independent transmission shops near my kid's house and Chrysler. Yup, Chrysler offers a 3 yr. 36K warranty on a remanufactured transmission and including the install and tax it's about $3300.
AAMCO quoted me $2000 with a 12 mnth 12K warranty, another 15% for 12 more months and 30% for another year and another shop offered me my kid's tranny rebuilt on site for 3K with a 12 mnth 12K warranty.
My neighbor works in management for Checker and says rebuilt and remanufactured are the same thing - is he right? He also said AAMCO is a franchise and some are great and some are lousy.
Could use some advice here. Obviously a longer warranty is nice but a problem with any tranny get should occur long before a year warranty is up. Don't want my son to spend money he doesn't have to but I'll help him out with the dough and would rather go expensive and right than cheap and more problems.
shelbydodgeimp
05-08-2006, 01:44 PM
My neighbor works in management for Checker and says rebuilt and remanufactured are the same thing - is he right? He also said AAMCO is a franchise and some are great and some are lousy.
No, a rebuilt is when you take an existing trans and rebuild it by replacing clutches, seals, bad hard parts etc.
A remade is when chrysler actually remakes the transmission, its a much stricter process (hence the higher price and warrenty).
You can do a rebuilt for 1 grand with just new seals and clutches, but that wont involve the inspection and replacement of parts that a remade would have.
As to AAMCO, I hear nothing but horror stories about them. I would find a small family run trans shop that knows their stuff for the work if you do not want to use a chrysler trans.
