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From: toml@druxm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Ford transmissions
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Date: Wed, 30-May-84 17:10:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 17:10:55 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jun-84 07:31:10 EDT
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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All the flak about Ford transmissions shifting into reverse by
themselves leads me to ask the following question:  "Are all Ford
automatic transmissions prone to do this (more specifically, is the one
in my 1969 Ranchero prone to it)?"

Also, there was a discussion a while ago, in which someone said (I
think) that the Ford C6 is a good transmission, but the C4 is not so
good.  How can I tell which I have?  (One possible bit of info I have is
that the middle drive position is second gear.  Some Ford transmissions
of the same era have a second-or-high middle position.)

Note that in its 15-year, 110000-mile life, my transmission has never
done anything as crass as shifting gears by itself, and only misbehaved
once (overheated in stop-and-go traffic hauling a load and towing a car
-- I've since installed an auxilliary cooler).  Also, since I keep my
parking brake adjusted (came in handy when my service brakes went out
suddenly -- Sears hasn't done any brake work for me since), and my idle
speed at spec, the parking brake has no difficulty keeping the car from
moving in either direction.  On the other hand, I admit that I have the
lazy habit of never using the parking brake (I learned that habit in the
frozen wastes of NJ in the winter.  It's a real bummer to find your
brakes frozen in the morning).

		Tom Laidig
		AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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