mjr46

yes it will greatly affect shift points and the correct wat is your suppose to have a gauge tapped into the pressure test port while setting the rod adjustment and set accordingly...however when mine was an aod I was lazy and set mine arrording to feel...first set a little lond...then a little shorter then I had the uppoer and lower limits marked then picked a happy medium of length in between the two until shifting felt just right..took a few tries but none the less it worked

verter2

Cobra77,
Thanks man, great link, just what I needed, looks like I have to be careful not to make an over adjustment. Maybe the cable is bad, or when the trans was removed it wasn't adjusted right. Thanks again

aode08

come on guys, no one told him to read the oil pan

stick your head under there, it tells on itself

94Yellow50

The trans fluid pan?...all i ever noticed was it said METRIC in big letters..maybe i just missed it....doesnt matter any more to me anyway...that trans is gonne

nitrous_bob

were you the original owners of both ? because short shifting is typical of the aod, and a shift kit won't do anything for it.

you'll get the 2-3 shift at about 3500, it takes a manual valve body to get it right, one that locks out od, so the 3 positions can be used for 1-2-3 instead of 1-2/3-4

the aod pan just says "metric" not aod

the aode didn't come in mustangs til '94 but was in the mark8

the aode hasstronger internals, and at least int he mark, better gearing. the aod can be upgraded to the 2.84 1st, 1.55 2nd and wider od band w/ the motorsport wide gear set

verter2

Nitrous_bob,
No, I'm not the original owner of either of them. But I can say that my 91, with 3.73s will smoke the 93 w/ 4:10's just on shifting points. My 91 winds out a lot more than the 93. On my 91, it shifts as if it were a manual, it's great. The 93 just barely touches 1st and it's into 2nd. We get no play from 1st. Never tracked tach levels at shift points...guess I need to do that. Will do when weather clears around here.

nitrous_bob

yeah i'm betting someone did a little work to your '91

the only other way to hold gears on an aod is the "shuffle" but that destroys your tranny by keeping some intermediate clutches engaged when they should not be.

i am referring to the 1-d-1 shifting teqnique where you start in 1, shift to d when you want 2nd, then back to 1 to hold 2, then back to d to shift to 3

it works, but it is destroying it as you do it.

you can look into the TV (throttle valve) pressure also, but you shouldn't set it blindly...just increasing/decreasingit very easy but you should know where your at

gearing of the aod is the #1 problem
lack of oiling is the 2nd, and the short shift points (partly due to oiling) is the 3rd

really allthose 3 combine forthe short life under moderate hp of the aod

check out lentech if you are not familiar w/ them...best stuf fon the market, other than precision industries "stallion" converter