I am new to diesel trucking and would like a little help from the seasoned ones here on Diesel place.


1st. great site and lots of info.


I am looking to buy an '02 d'max with an Allison trans. its an out of state purchase so I am wanting as much info as possible to make me as protected as possible.


Ok its an '02 d-max/alli cc 4x4 48k miles regularly maintained looks like new. has edge juice hot and attitude. ATS exhaust system ,gagues and other goodies. Has a magtech diff cover. It has been a towing rig for the diesel pulling truck he races has been the apple of the owners eye. Is there any thing I can do/look out for on these.


Thanks Jonathan


VIn check? what will this tell me if anything? Edited by: Duramax660

if you run the vin, it will tell you what repairs have been made on the truck. ( if repaired by the dealer)

If he has the a hot juice attitude then there is a possibility that the trany has been hurt if he has been flogging it and not nice on the go pedal. If you are somewhat mechanicly inclined and have a deccent place to do it a rebuild/upgrade of the allison is pretty easy. or most shops will ding you for a bit under 4k for a pretty stout rebuild. Look at the fluid and see how red it is. Good thing about the allison is that when its abused hard it dosnt break things it just pisses off the clutches and pissed of clutches just dont like to hold high HP as well. If you remove the HP and go back to stock or mild it ussually seems to work like nothing happened. The "hot juice" attitude is a 145+ hp tune and will not work on the ally for long without limping it.....doubtfull if he was running this program and had it set to kill. The 125 version(hot non attitude or regular attitude) will sometimes hurt an ally. Most recomend not running over the 90 hp juice if you want max longterm ally reliablity. If you dont mind upgrading the allison then set her to kill and smoke em if you got emhttp://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/smiley15.gif


If its been well maintained and had a good owner more than likely you are OK. The big worry of injectors has a 200k 7 year warantee so that aint a big deal.

Yeah.....what Rat said.



If you want a simple-assed way of seeing how the Alli is doing, just
set the Attitude in the 2-bar analog display mode and set one of them
for transmission slip %.



I can whoop on level 3 (90 HP) pretty good with little or no
slipping....just start out from a stop and mash on it. If you see
slip in L3, I would ask questions to the owner about how he used it,
how many times has it zinged, etc. Well, do that anyway.



Level 4 (125 HP) will slip mine good. Mine is easy to slip in 5th
gear, go about 60 on the highway and roll into it pretty hard and make
it hit 15-20 psi boost. I see single digit %slip when I do this.



Running it in tow/haul where this is more TC lockup and watching the
monitor (along with the feel of the lockup) will help you figure to
some degree if it's gonna be dead soon or if it's gonna be dead later. http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/hihi.gif



I don't tow anything heavy with my truck, so I'm making the assumption that my truck is pretty "normal."

Hi all,


Have any of you had the issue with the Edge power box causing the ABS light to come on? The truck I am buying has got this issue and the seller has contacted the Edge company and they have said that this has come up a few times recently. The Edge version is not the most recent one so I might have to upgrade to the newest version. This brings me to another question...has anyone been able to disable the ABS light in the dash cluster?