Sorry man, but I'll be completely honest with you. I work at a Hummer dealership, and if it was my call, I would absolutely not cover it either. You've got to understand something. When you put a supercharger on your engine, you are running a lot more horsepower and torque through the transmission. When they design these vehicles, they design the trans to be able to hold up to the horsepower for the enigne they are putting in. Horsepower breaks parts. Thats an old hot rodding rule. No exception here. Now other people here are right. We have seen 2-4 band failures, but the 3-4 clutch failure is more common than that.
Picture this in your mind. You're got your foot mashed to the floor, and you're taking off fast. When that trans that goes to shift into second, you've got a drum inside that trans spinning very fast, and now you've got a flimsy band that is suppossed to come out and hold this drum, while all of this horsepower and torque is still being applied to it. I can understand why it burned up.
Once again sorry, this is just the stuff you encounter when you start modifing your vehicle like this. The transmissions in these are good trans's, but in my opinion, maybe a little light duty for the size of this truck. When you apply all that horsepower, and possibly with some hard driving. That trans will be toast. Your best bet is either drive easier with the supercharger, have your trans rebuilt by a performance shop that may be able to make it more durable, or find a way to get a 4l80e trans put in there.
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04-07-2005, 06:29 PM
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