I am looking at buying a 1987 Dodge Ram 2500 Van, and have heard there have been a lot issues with Dodge Transmissions. Can anyone tell me information about the Dodge 518 transmissions that are in these vehicles, and if there are a lot of problems with themThanks
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have been you working your ac while it has the subject if so then the ac is taking alot of power from the motor vehicle sufficient to reason issues. answer would be to learn plugs wires and all of the engine goodies.
there has been a lot of failures with the 518 transmissions,those was the early versions and the caused problems with clutch packs burning out in them and also with shift solenoids going bad along with the governors not allowing the right amount of pressure to them,most of them didn't make it past the 125 thousand mile mark without having to be rebuilt,so if you can find out if its ever been worked on before,i owned a 96 model that had had two transmissions put in it,so be careful on this one,good luck.
