Buy it or run?
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Buy it or run?
We want a bronco.
There's a really nice looking 86 bronco with a really straight body, perfect chrome, straight clean interior, even the decals are like new.
The truck has the 4 speed automatic. 79K miles. The guy wants 2500 dollars, (seemed like a good deal) but he said he'd also trade even for my 94 camaro 5speed v6. hmm...
So then he explains that it shifts roughly but that this is just the way that this particular transmission shifts.
I dont believe him and I want yall's opinion:
When you accelerate it jolts very suddenly into overdrive, making the whole truck jolt. When you slow down, the whole truck jolts again as it comes out of overdrive, then a jolt for each additional gear as you continue to slow down.
What do you think? Buy it or runn like H?
There's a really nice looking 86 bronco with a really straight body, perfect chrome, straight clean interior, even the decals are like new.
The truck has the 4 speed automatic. 79K miles. The guy wants 2500 dollars, (seemed like a good deal) but he said he'd also trade even for my 94 camaro 5speed v6. hmm...
So then he explains that it shifts roughly but that this is just the way that this particular transmission shifts.
I dont believe him and I want yall's opinion:
When you accelerate it jolts very suddenly into overdrive, making the whole truck jolt. When you slow down, the whole truck jolts again as it comes out of overdrive, then a jolt for each additional gear as you continue to slow down.
What do you think? Buy it or runn like H?
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could be universals, mine does it too...could be more. What motor and tranny? I don't think that 80k is that many miles at all either. My 88 is pushing 200k now I think.
you're right, I read that too quicky...I don't know about shifting like that into OD, I was thinking D to R or something like that. In that case, if it clanks when it goes from R to D, like in a parking lot, THEN, I'd say, look at the universals.
you're right, I read that too quicky...I don't know about shifting like that into OD, I was thinking D to R or something like that. In that case, if it clanks when it goes from R to D, like in a parking lot, THEN, I'd say, look at the universals.
Last edited by jdmorg; Nov 30, 2004 at 08:57 AM.
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Seems odd that universals would be the cause of the Jerking as it goes in and out of OD and down shifts. My very first thought is that perhaps the fluid is really old and dirty and the bugger needs a good tranny flush and tune up including tightening up anything in there that may have gotten worn or loose (ie bands). And given that it is a 1986 odds are that ODO is truely at 179,000 vs 79,000.
just my $.02 cents worth.
~Shawn
just my $.02 cents worth.
~Shawn
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I bought my old 85 with 80K on it and it jolted like that since day one. What I did to cure it, keep it out of overdrive unless I was going over 55. Then I would put it in, and let it shift easy into OD by slowly letting off the gas until it shifted. For me it was the t-case that was sloppy and cause the jolt when going into OD. Now remember, I bought it with 80K. I put it in for a ground up restoration about 3 months ago...and it has 275K. I never did rebuild the t-case and it still runs strong. Now for $2500, it is maybe just a bit high. I would take him down to $2000. I bought mine for 2k and it had all the rust. A good clean body itself is worth that.
