overdrive tranny?
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overdrive tranny?
I don't stray out of the 67-72 camp much but I thought this question belonged here. I found an 80-86 style pickup in the junkyard with a manual (o/d ? ) transmission that I am not familiar with. I could only see down through the shifter hole and it had a single shift rail running in the rear of the main case. I have seen the top loader style o/d with the old style car type shifter and the rather rare o/d with a top tower shifter but never a manual with a rail style shifter. Any clues? Thanks
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I kind of thought it might be a SROD but I have only ever seen them in Mustangs, and I couldn't remember about the shifter location but this one was on the outside of the case and I thought the SROD was inside the tail housing.
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A Borg-Warner T-85 was a cast iron 3 speed with overdrive. If you aren't familiar with the system, it has the overdrive built into the tailhousing and could actually use it in each gear except it had a governor that locked it out below 33 mph so it really couldn't be used in 1st, but was actually a 6 speed. These were last used in 1972 and were column shift. Way cool
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No kidding.. that sounds awesome! not the the column part, but that is almost like a gear venders unit..
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