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Sep 2, 2006 | 01:43 PM

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Twister

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RE: Automatic transmission?

79-83 FOX'es used a C5 3 speed, the AOD was first used in Mustang's in 1984

Sep 2, 2006 | 01:59 PM

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6mustang6

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So what is most cost efficient to get and useable? AOD? AODE? or that other tranny from a lincoln?

Sep 2, 2006 | 03:53 PM

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Colorado_Mustang

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AOD is a 4-speed. It also locks the torque converter, which will make it feel like a 5-speed.

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ORIGINAL: 67coupe

The AOD's are still a three speed but the converter locks at light throttle to give the overdrive. I have some experience with them in my father's Ford truck and it is all bad so far. It quit pulling with 68,000 miles on it and the transmission shop stuck a rebuilt unit in the truck that didn't shift right so they rebuilt his. Now with 3,000 miles on it it is starting to grunt when it shifts to second. I never had trouble with a C4 under 100,000 miles.

I would personally get a computer controlled tranny and install the necessary control box. That would give you better control over shift points and firmness than any shift kit for a mechanically controlled tranny. The AOD with its TV cable can be a royal pain to set up...

Sep 2, 2006 | 08:23 PM

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Brandontyler65

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Sweet so i can put an AOD-E in my 67 sweet i might acually save some gas lol

Sep 2, 2006 | 08:47 PM

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deadcarnahans

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Colorado is thinking the right way.
96 and newer 4R70Ws are better than AODEs in several ways. AODEs had issues. Ford worked the bugs out in the later units.

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