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Originally Posted by pete c
Yes, the Nissan V-6 in that villager is one of the best damn motors ever made. The 3.3 dodge is a damn good motor as well, unfortunately is was bolted to a POS AOD tranny. Dodge has seemed to finally iron out the problems with this tranny. I had an 02 GC with this drivetrain that shifted like new the entire time I owned it. I believe the cure was a monster sized tranny cooler. I became very familiar with it after my daughter stoved in the front end and I got to replace it all. The cooler was approximately the size of the AC condenser.
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Chrysler engineers decided not to have a gasket on the valve body, this would eventually leak and cause hunting, shifting problems and then clutch failure. A friend had a caravan and replaced the transmission 4 times, every 50k it would go out.