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Reply #15 – December 08, 2011, 05:06:58 PM

Quote from: 88 Blackbird 5.0;374996

That's what's so laughable about Ford putting tranny coolers on TC's, but not Sports. If you had to choose which trans needs maximum cooling more between an AOD and an A4LD, the AOD would be the correct choice, hands down. There's a good reason why I'm installiing a 30,000 GVW tranny cooler on the Red-Winged Blackbird.

agreed.. the AOD has 2 major fail points.. water and heat.. most transmissions in use when the AOD was used could take on a little water and still work properly before you get a chance to change the fluid.. AOD's make quite a mess when they take on water, POOF, toast.. the heat just chews away at the clutches.. i've seen a lot of people blow a head gasket and their AOD at the same time, because they overheated the motor, which then made the cooler in the radiator super hot and keeping the fluid that passes through hot.. the AOD's usually aren't completely toasted, but they're hurting and start slipping in 2nd

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Reply #16 – December 08, 2011, 07:28:48 PM

Don't forget the paltry input shaft. It's another flaw in the design of AOD's. It's such a limiting factor in strength, you can increase the reliable power handling ability of an otherwise stock AOD by doing nothing more than installing a non-locking converter. Dan Gilsdorf (the most knowledgeable guy I know of when it comes to AOD's) says an AOD can reliably handle 450 horsepower by doing nothing more than replacing the lock-up converter with a non-locking one. That's why I'm running a 3000 stall, non-locking converter in the Red-Winged Blackbird.

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Reply #17 – December 08, 2011, 08:33:29 PM

i was just talking in stock form, but yeah, the lockup converter is total garbage IMO