Thread: Chevy Truck World

i have a 97 z71 with 5.7l vortec i recently had my tranny rebuilt mechanic told me that the reason why the tranny went out so abrupt is because the crankshaft moves a little bit and when i took off from a stop i was low on fuel then the truck almost died but didnt it sputured and then i had no foward or reverse movement because the tranny pump shaterd i was wondering if the crankshaft moves wouldnt i have more problems with the motor? is the...

NO the 5.7L wasn`t known for having big problems. I had a tranny shop try to tell me my high performance cam was tearing up my transmission because he didn`t want to honor his warranty on my 97 Z-71. You didn`t say how many miles are on it. I see your profile shows 135k miles on it. That is when my tranny went out on my Z-71. Then the idiot that built it put the wrong size check valve in 2nd gear in the valve body. It was too big and when the...