yeah the manual trany's were fine, it was just the automatic's that were a pain. even the dodge dealer ship said since they went with the new style trany its droped there trany work town 75%. if i was to ever get one again i would just go put a dana tranny in and be done with it. never did have any prob with dash cracking on mine, but two guys a run coyote dogs with have had that happen in theres. must be the plastic. anyways
enough rambling.