Is it worth it for me to beef up my stock transmission?

[TyCorr]

That makes me feel better about how well it held up. Did you put anouther oem trans in after that? Did you do a lot of towing with it?

At work we have a stock 2000 cab chassis that the dumb asses were pulling around a 30k lbs backhoe on the trailer, it lasted a few weeks of daily use untill the converter and trans was shot. We had the transmission rebuilt and a billet converter put in. I don't do any real towing but I always hear about needing to upgrade the trans when people start adding more power, but it looks like I might just run it with good maintance.

I was.at about 20k and stuck in about 8"of mud with 38" tires. Got hot fast. I NEEDED to.get out so i jockeyed.my way over to some stone and held it to the.floor. The fluid was.smelly but didnt turn brown or black.

If you had a 7.3 with 4.10 gears it'll pull 30k. I believe your experience but its.hard telling if it was maintainex or not. My 2lived everyday hooked to a gn loaded for the firstten years 200k miles. 100hp single pos chip, 6" lift, and bigger tires. I had a trans and pyro gauge setup in it. My trans didnt go until I started modding it and went "down" to a 37" tire. It was a inadequate.cooler that did mine in. I put a low mile stocker in.