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    DOA AOD

    Cruising down the highway last night, and my car started chugging. I thought that it was the engine. I shifted down to Drive and it straightened out. I shifted back into OD, and everything seemed fine until I could hear the engine over my radio. The RPM's were slowly climbing and the car was slowing.
    I pulled over and checked everything out, finding no obvious problems until I smelled the fluid. The nastiest smelling red tranny fluid I had ever smelled.
    This just brings up my time line for my conversion a couple of months.
    I am going to tear the AOD down and see if it is salvagable. By the looks of it, it had been rebuilt once already. Until I find evidence otherwise, I am going to blame it on the retarded valve body just because I can. That is definitely going into the dumpster.
    1st gear lockout.............just retarded. :chainsaw:

    #2
    that sucks is this on your 81? if it is i would get a newer core aod to rebuild
    scott

    1986 lincoln towncar signature series. 5.0 HO with thumper performance ported e7 heads, 1.7 roller rockers, warm air intake, 65mm throttle body, 1/2" intake spacer, ported intakes, 3.73 rear with trac lock, 98-02 front brake conversion, 92-97 rear disc conversion, 1" rear swaybar, 1 3/16" front swaybar, 16" wheels and tires, loud ass stereo system, badass cb, best time to date 15.94 at 87 mph. lots of mods in the works 221.8 rwhp 278 rwt
    2006 Lincoln Town Car Signature. Stock for now
    1989 Ford F-250 4x4 much much more to come, sefi converted so far.
    1986 Toyota pickup with LSC wheels and 225/60/16 tires.
    2008 Hyundai Elantra future Revcon toad
    1987 TriBurner and 1986 Alaska stokers keeping me warm. (and some pesky oil heat)

    please be patient, rebuilding an empire!

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      #3
      someone else has an 81 marquis too?

      1981 Mercury Marquis Brougham 2-Door 302/ 5-speed -special blend (GMGT)
      1987 Lincoln Mark VII 5-speed (Errand runner)
      1989 Mercury Grand Marquis (Base Runner)
      2007 Lincoln Town Car Signature Limited (Hustlyn)
      2011 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (Down with O.P.P)

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        #4
        My wide ratio kit instructions said the 89-up trannys were the better ones to use...

        RIP Jason P Harril, we'll miss ya bro

        '80 Town Coupé
        '84 Towncar - Teh Cobra TC, 408w powered
        '16 Ram 1500 CC Outdoorsman, Hemi/3.92/8sp 4x4

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          #5
          Dear Gurus,
          Don't know if this is useful or not. I've an '89 colony park. Last fall the day before I was to drive 26 hrs to Sturgis Sd, I heard a horrible noise. My transmission guy said it was the OD but that that tranny had been built originally w/o od but the weight of the
          car blew the od ring every 40 k or so. He thought I could drive it with the other gears which I did - 26 hrs each way. Gas mileage was only 17 and I sweated but I got home w/o OD. Donald McCaig

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            #6
            I have a 91 P72.
            I have used 90/91 trannys and a couple of cores in that vintage also.
            I am going to open this one up first and see what it needs besides a new OD band.
            I will be putting one of my Mustang valve bodies and governors in it with a higher stall converter.

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