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Having had the truck now for the whole weekend, I am feeling much better about it. I crawled under it yesterday and foudn a few minor issues that I am sure the dealer will take care of. It's nit picky stuff but my new truck deserves to still look new.
Today was another interesting day. Drove it loaded with ATV and chainsaw gear. Went into the mountain to do some trail clearing before deer season really kicks off. Anyway the drive was without incident. Rode and drove fine. Tranny seems to be working great.
Ran into a Toyota mechanic who has worked at my dealership for 14 years. He recognized my truck right away and asked how the tranny was. Of course I said just fine. He proceded to tell me talk in the shop indicated that the Torque Converter has been the problem all along. Seems the way the plate spot welded is not strong enough for the loading. So....the welds on some have broken and that is what causes the shudder.
Toyota has supposedly corrected the problem at manufacture plant by adding additional welds to their process. This must be why Toyota is now only offering some of the rest new TC's only. Nothing wrong with the actual transmission.
Oh by the way. SM told me Friday that Toyota does not sub out the trannys. They are manufactured by Toyota at a Toyota plant in the South East. He didn't know what state. I believe him.
I am off in the morning for final tweaks and reallignment of my Borla exhaust. Gonna insist they replace all of the heat shields they bent up in the tranny swaps.
Finally, I am convinced the annoying vibration is caused by resonance from the exhaust. Funny thing.... I didn't actually want the exhaust to begin with but it was already optioned on the truck when I bought it. I like the performance gain and looks but the drone gets annoying. Now I just turn up the radio. Looking at undercoating with a sound dampening. I know it is available. Posted under another thread for some opinons.