ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:
westend wrote:
I've alway been partial to Fords but have owned all the big 3 and even a Mazda truck. All of them had a long life (hope I'm not jinxing myself, lol). I tend to watch the fluid in the trannys and try to flush/renew fluid at decent intervals.
My take is that any truck transmission out of the big 3 will give good service if it's maintained and a decent cooler is on the truck.
Right now, I have the Ford 4R100 mated to a 5.4 V8 and it is a decent transmission. One of the best I had was the Ford cast iron C6 from years ago. That unit would downshift at 70 mph and get me going in a few seconds.
:) Hi, Ford's FMX was cast iron; The C-4 and C-6 were aluminum.
You're absolutely right. My memory has started to get blurred. Here is a quote from another message board about the vintage cast iron Ford-o-Matic: "IMHO, if ever there was a 100% perfect automatic transmission, it was the 1951-57 cast iron, air-cooled Fordomatics. With three forward speeds these indestructible workhorses would outlast the entire car. It was only when they cheapened them with water cooling lines, aluminum cases, and missing front pumps did they have a shorter (and more expensive) life expectancy."
