Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by SteveSRT8
Geez, anything used for work that has 228k miles on it must be a decent truck. And I can't imagine the trans issues, they simply don't break repeatedly like that.
OP knows we RAM owners can only hope to get that many miles out of our trucks!!!
I don't believe the 4L60E has a reputation for being overly robust, unlike it's larger sibling. There have been a few threads about it on here, IIRC.
4L60 / 700R4 have long been known to be either good or bad, hit or miss. [If you listen only to the webs then more miss than good.] Although I believe this one should be a 4L65, I think with some minor upgrades. It was a good idea in its time but GM milked that 4AT for way too long IMO. Back in the days of lo-po engines that deep first gear made sense, but they still had big jumps as you've noticed. I think the 200R4 had better ratios, of course at the expense of range.
As a work truck it's probably been beat on like a rental. My thought: if this has tall highway gears then I wonder if this thing was constantly unlocking the convertor and was running hot. It should have a trans cooler on it of some sort, but perhaps that wasn't enough, or the constant shifting took them out.