I'm with Kanise. One star is too much!
Jerry's built a 700R for my 67 Chevelle and a 4L80E for my 51' GMC truck. Something didn't feel right on the 700R so I took it back to have them check it out. There was probably 1000 miles on it at that point.They couldn't find anything wrong so I kept driving it. That's when I started building my 51' truck. I had to purchase the tranny for it early in order to mock everything up to see how everything would line up. This is a Hot Rod so things need to be planned out well in advance.
Since I was building the truck I didn't drive the Chevelle much. Just as I was finishing the truck (about a year and a half later) I started having some more issues with the 700R. I decided to take it to Leon's transmission in Canoga Park. The tranny was burned up and had to be rebuilt. ($1400). They couldn't tell me at that point what caused it, but guessed it was faulty parts or something incorrect in the building of the transmission. Mark at Leons isn't big on bad mouthing other shops. Either way, even with only less than 3000 miles on it, I had Leon's rebuild it and I didn't even bother Jerry's again since it was well after their one year warranty period and I really didn't want to go all the way there again to let them work on it. I had lost faith in them by now.
After Leon's finished it I couldn't believe the difference. The initial problems were all gone and this thing worked much, much better.
I've since finished the 51' and I have been working all the bugs out of it, which is normal on these kind of builds.
I have had the 4L80E for two and a half years now, but only started diving it the end of 2014 and it has less than 900 miles on it, when I started having shift problems. Slipping in and out of gear. Stopped shifting into 2nd gear, odd vibrations and noises. I decided to let Leon's look at this, since I have no confidence in Jerry's at this point. I also wanted to make sure there wasn't something that I did wrong when I installed it.
YES, again I need a complete rebuild. This time it is costing me $2300.00. Mark gave me a whole list of problems and thought it looked like a used transmission that was just cleaned up and sold to me. I also have to replace the converter since there is so many metal shavings in it. He asked if the same guys built this one too. I said yes, but I have learned my lesson not to use Jerry's anymore.
I haven't gotten the 4L80E back yet, but thought I would post to Yelp to warn others about Jerry's.
I talked to Jeremy (Jerry's son) yesterday, but as I expected they wouldn't do anything, since both transmissions are out of their warranty and they didn't get a chance to look at the problems. I told them there was no way I was going to let them touch any of my vehicles again, even to try and fix previous problems. Even if it would have been free.
I just have to chalk it up to experience. There are a lot of so called "experts" out there, but only a few that really know what they are doing. Leon's really knows what they are doing. They have done 4 transmissions for me now and I couldn't be happier. I can't wait to get my truck back and feel what a correctly built transmission feels like in this truck. read more