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How to tell c4 or aod?

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tbird187

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So I bought an aod from a friends friend... anyways I get it home and it just doesnt look like an aod to me, but ive never really had any autos... im 99.999 the bellhousing can unbolt isnt that only on c4's? what is the best way for me to find out what I have.
 
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bell housing has RF-D7BP-7976-AA on it
 

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C4 and C5 you can remove bell, AOD you cannot.
 

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C4


AOD




the bell and tail look different, and as stated above the bell on the C4 is removable... if it's HUGE it's probably an AOD
 

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If it has a vacuum solenoid anywhere on there, it's not an AOD ... but the easier way to tell, as stated, is whether or not the bellhousing can be unbolted.
 

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More pics of an AOD

 

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so which one is it?!?!
 

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What if it's a C6? IIRC, the bellhousing doesn't unbolt from those, either.
 

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Mustang5L5 said:
More pics of an AOD

Click to expand...

If you were not so far away I would take that AOD off your hands.
 

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Yeah, i've gotten a bunch of that.

I've given up trying to offload it. I just cleared up some space, and squirreled it away wrapped in plastic
 

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Generally the tranny pan has "metric aod" stamped in it in big ol' letters.
 

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so what is it?
 
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