What's an 833 o/d from a truck worth?

RustyRatRod said

Yall can argue strength all you want. Here's the facts. They put these transmissions in trucks and vans. Those were not light vehicles. Most cars will be much lighter than the vans and trucks these transmissions came out of, so the strength factor effectively goes up. While it is true that the counter shaft turns in high gear, the failures of the counter shaft and or case is fairly uncommon. Like anything else, as long as it has oil in it and it's full, it'll probably be ok. It IS an 833 derivative, after all.

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Totally agree.

It's true, the 833 OD's are not as strong as an 833. But for most of us, an 833 is practically bombproof on the street. The 833 OD's can wear out the case around the counter shaft, but this isn't a short term problem, its a long term issue. And, if you have the transmission out of the car and you're worried about the case, you can have the case machined to accept steel bushings for the counter shaft. I forget where I saw the article, but its a pretty easy fix. If you're REALLY worried about it, the 833 OD internals will swap right into a regular 833 cast iron case. You can't mix and match, but you can take everything and swap it into cast iron case with a 308 bearing.

But I've heard of more than one 833OD living just fine behind a 440. The one I know about in particular was in a B body that saw a decent amount of 1/4 mile time. It was eventually replaced, but it held up for years like that. In an A body that sees mostly street use and runs street tires at the track, you're unlikely to have any issues.