Anyone with a higher mileage AOD?

[MrKwik]

My 86GT still has the original AOD in it and its still perfectly healthy. 342k miles on the car.

 

[The Shape]

My 86GT still has the original AOD in it and its still perfectly healthy. 342k miles on the car.

342k ?! :worship: :worship:

 

[Jeff Cardwell]

244,000 and still going. Time to change the fluid before going back to the dragstrip.

Jeff
www.ThunderValleyMustangs.com

 

[The Shape]

Wow Jeff you and MrKwik have gotten alot more miles than I even though possible out of an AOD and I am not one to put down the AOD.

 

[PhLoBuS]

my aod has 99k now, it has been rebuilt... It is running very strong though

 

[macx]

Mine had 130k and was doing fine when the damned tv bushing crumbled and fell out. And that's a 4,000 lb Lincoln LSC. My wife's LSC had 198k when we parked it and had been abused mightily by our kids for awhile before that. Was feeling kinda weak by then, though.

I did my own rebuild, went with a later model stamped steel direct drum with an Alto Red / Kolene steel 8 pack direct clutch, Baumann shift kit, Sonnax valve body valve fix (can't remember which valve), an A Od servo, a stock width but heavy duty OD band, a 4 plate intermediate clutch like a 4R70W and a 2500 Carr lockup converter. Does pretty well.

BUT! Go to www.lincolnsonline.com, look in their Tech section, transmissions, and
read a write up on Ford Auto OD parts interchangebility - you can get a basically stock 4.2V6 99 or newer 4R70W that is much stronger than most any beefed AOD, has ALL the heavy duty Ford improvements and perf parts stock, and will bolt to a Windsor V8. All you need is a Baumann electric control and a decent converter if you want - although stock 4R converters are better than the stock AOD ones by a bunch, and you end up with a better trans at the same or less $ than doing big hopups on an AOD.

 

[LX302]

Mine started giving me a problem with the 3rd to 4th gear shutter around 130K. Overdrive band was smoked. I had the trans rebuilt by Level 10 at that time and currently have just over 200K on the current trans, and it's still running strong.

 

[The Shape]

Sounds good after doing some research I think beefing up my AOD would be much better than doing a t-5 swap. That was the main reason for this thread. The AOD has such a bad rep about poor reliability around here it seems. But from what I have witnessed in just my car and several guys I know who have t-5 cars it seemed to be the other way around. My AOD has never given be problems where as I can't remeber how many times I have helped them swap clutches and gear boxes out. I know that probably has more to do with them beating on the cars though.

 

[rsw007]

i love my aod, but it cost to build one that lasts. so what ever you do dont cut corners spend the money so you only have to do it once.

 

[The Shape]

I was thinking of going with one from Lentech.

 

[crazypete]

I think it is their "strip terminator". It raises to full pressure all the time (125 or 150 psi not sure) so even if the tv cable falls out, nothing particularly interesting will happen (you wont throttle downshift). It deletes lockup in 3rd so you have torque multiplication in 3rd and it shifts real nice and hard. It's like $600 though. Maybe a $70 transgo kit would be more reasonable. I have it....it's ok but you will find the 4->3 shift doesnt happen when you stomp the gas and it likes OD more than 3 so you might get dumped into OD in the middle of a WOT race. You get what you pay for I guess. Nothing a bump from od->D on the selector cant fix though

 

[willys1]

I only have 66,000 on mine.I bought it last year and it was real sluggish!! I added a PI's 2800 stall and a shift kit(Trans-Go),,and gears.The motor is stock with bolt-ons.Theres nothing like punching it out,and the wheels start spinning like you just side stepped the clutch

 

[89MustangGX]

I think it is their "strip terminator". It raises to full pressure all the time (125 or 150 psi not sure) so even if the tv cable falls out, nothing particularly interesting will happen (you wont throttle downshift). It deletes lockup in 3rd so you have torque multiplication in 3rd and it shifts real nice and hard. It's like $600 though.

None of the manual shift Strip Term's will use a TV cable -- they are not supposed to. The auto-shift is strange -- it is auto-shift but uses a fixed line pressure, which I don't really understand. That one probably still needs to have the TV cable on for shifting, but adjustment may not be critical for pressure. I dunno on that one.

Oh, and it's $679 for the full manual Strip Terminator with the brake -- and I hope it's worth every penny, I'll let you know!

 

[The Shape]

None of the manual shift Strip Term's will use a TV cable -- they are not supposed to. The auto-shift is strange -- it is auto-shift but uses a fixed line pressure, which I don't really understand. That one probably still needs to have the TV cable on for shifting, but adjustment may not be critical for pressure. I dunno on that one.

Oh, and it's $679 for the full manual Strip Terminator with the brake -- and I hope it's worth every penny, I'll let you know!

Can't wait to see what you get out of it. I have loved your other car since I first joined stangnet. I am interested to see what you get out of the AOD.

 

[Marks5.0!]

ive been running a lentech street terminator with a precision industries converter since 99, has about 50k on it and still performs as good today as it did the day i put it in.

 

[89MustangGX]

Can't wait to see what you get out of it. I have loved your other car since I first joined stangnet. I am interested to see what you get out of the AOD.

Thanks. Like I said, I was a die-hard stick guy, and I have most of the parts to convert the car (all the hard-to-find stuff), but I'm going to try the AOD for now and see what happens! I'll let you know!

 

[southbronx]

I just went over 200k on 89GT and no problems. Been on top of the fluid changes at the end of every summer, usually around Labor Day just for reminders. Still runs strong with no slippage, knock knock. I'll get around to the valve body upgrade soon.