545RFE into a late A-body

The local trans shop down the road (a friend that I went to school with owns it) says the 545RFE are very crappy transmissions. Something about they build so much pressure in the shifting valves that the housing explodes. He says that trans helps him stay in business. There was three of them he was work while I was there. Two had already been rebuilt but not installed and the last one was getting torn down to be vatted. Sure enough the housing was blew off one end... looked bad. I felt better about my crappy 46re in my truck then.

Fishy68 can more than likely fill us in with the 545... it has a different type valve body than others but that's the part that causes the trouble.

I tell you ..... when you walk into a trans shop and see 80% Dodge up on the racks then you get a feeling that there transmissions are not the most well built trans in the world.