94 Reman 4L60E
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Just my opinion, but to me "remanufactured" means a bigger company with an assembly line, while "rebuilt" could also include a smaller shop that rebuilds parts.
While "remanufactured" might be OK for "simple" assemblies like alternators, in my humble opinion that almost guarantees a shoddy and unreliable transmission. For one, the people working these assembly lines send to have little training, be poorly paid and get bonuses for faster work. Questionable parts get reused, nothing is carefully inspected or measured, and the #1 priority is profit and perhaps even worse, "stockholder value".
Sure that are plenty of unscrupulous small shops that will also build a shoddy trans, but there are also ethical pros who will perform a good rebuild.
Obviously those $600 transmissions on ebay are only good enough to get your car running long enough to sell it (shame on you), but the $1200 rebuilds are more likely to actually last a long time.
Again, just my opinion. Partly based on horrible experiences with "remanufactured" steering boxes and other things that require even a bit of care.
While "remanufactured" might be OK for "simple" assemblies like alternators, in my humble opinion that almost guarantees a shoddy and unreliable transmission. For one, the people working these assembly lines send to have little training, be poorly paid and get bonuses for faster work. Questionable parts get reused, nothing is carefully inspected or measured, and the #1 priority is profit and perhaps even worse, "stockholder value".
Sure that are plenty of unscrupulous small shops that will also build a shoddy trans, but there are also ethical pros who will perform a good rebuild.
Obviously those $600 transmissions on ebay are only good enough to get your car running long enough to sell it (shame on you), but the $1200 rebuilds are more likely to actually last a long time.
Again, just my opinion. Partly based on horrible experiences with "remanufactured" steering boxes and other things that require even a bit of care.
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Reman is just rebuilt with a different name and of course both have varying levels of rebuilt/reman just a rose by another name . And yes 1994 is no issue to get or do. And as stated reman generally means assembly line type build with little individual care.
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Just my opinion, but to me "remanufactured" means a bigger company with an assembly line, while "rebuilt" could also include a smaller shop that rebuilds parts.
While "remanufactured" might be OK for "simple" assemblies like alternators, in my humble opinion that almost guarantees a shoddy and unreliable transmission. For one, the people working these assembly lines send to have little training, be poorly paid and get bonuses for faster work. Questionable parts get reused, nothing is carefully inspected or measured, and the #1 priority is profit and perhaps even worse, "stockholder value".
Sure that are plenty of unscrupulous small shops that will also build a shoddy trans, but there are also ethical pros who will perform a good rebuild.
Obviously those $600 transmissions on ebay are only good enough to get your car running long enough to sell it (shame on you), but the $1200 rebuilds are more likely to actually last a long time.
Again, just my opinion. Partly based on horrible experiences with "remanufactured" steering boxes and other things that require even a bit of care.
While "remanufactured" might be OK for "simple" assemblies like alternators, in my humble opinion that almost guarantees a shoddy and unreliable transmission. For one, the people working these assembly lines send to have little training, be poorly paid and get bonuses for faster work. Questionable parts get reused, nothing is carefully inspected or measured, and the #1 priority is profit and perhaps even worse, "stockholder value".
Sure that are plenty of unscrupulous small shops that will also build a shoddy trans, but there are also ethical pros who will perform a good rebuild.
Obviously those $600 transmissions on ebay are only good enough to get your car running long enough to sell it (shame on you), but the $1200 rebuilds are more likely to actually last a long time.
Again, just my opinion. Partly based on horrible experiences with "remanufactured" steering boxes and other things that require even a bit of care.
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Experts?
Let me say sorry first.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
HAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA!
Sorry about all of that.
To answer you now... No.
No Experts at all.
Minimum-Wage Factory Workers assembled the Original Transmissions.
Everyone does it that way, not just GM.
Let me say sorry first.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
HAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA!
Sorry about all of that.
To answer you now... No.
No Experts at all.
Minimum-Wage Factory Workers assembled the Original Transmissions.
Everyone does it that way, not just GM.
Last edited by vorteciroc; Apr 26, 2023 at 12:15 AM.
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For example, a quality shop will toss (not reuse) the planetaries if the trans had a catastrophic failure which sent ground up metal everyone; I suspect most reman shops just blow all planetaries regardless of their donor's condition. (I've been told it is impossible to get fully get ground up metal out of a planetary.)