electric overdrive
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Mountain Pass
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electric overdrive
have 78 F150 351M with C-6 tranny
Looking to put an electric overdrive on the back of the tranny so I get better mpg and engine works less . Anyone have input on this and what overdrive is best for simple and most dependable or better yet as bullet proof as possible?
thank you for the info.
Looking to put an electric overdrive on the back of the tranny so I get better mpg and engine works less . Anyone have input on this and what overdrive is best for simple and most dependable or better yet as bullet proof as possible?
thank you for the info.
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Mountain Pass
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will be putting on a tranny cooler , like to keep the fluids separate, friends old car had 351 and a C-4 , cooling tube for tranny leaked and antifreeze took out tranny.
my 77 F250 with C-6 had two coolers and was great, fluid came back low temp and ready to work lol
my 77 F250 with C-6 had two coolers and was great, fluid came back low temp and ready to work lol
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your engine would work less if you swapped out for a overdrive transmission that had a lock-up torque converter. There are threads on the swap and running different type transmission controllers. It doesn't look too hard
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I have the Gear Vendors OD and it's great. It's bullet proof, they put the same unit in dump trucks. It's only 22% overdrive though.
As far as a latter model trans I haven't heard of any adapters. If someone does please post.
As far as a latter model trans I haven't heard of any adapters. If someone does please post.
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