The 10-inch TCI torque converter (/eft) increases stall speed over the stock Ford AOD converter. The engine thereby increases rpm more quickly, and the transmission engages higher in the engine's ...

In the realm of automatics, there are options for all of Detroit’s “Big Three,” and perhaps one of the simplest retrofits is Ford’s ... a high stall-speed torque converter and an upgraded ...

Unlike the AODE, which uses a more traditional torque-converter lockup clutch, the older AOD achieved lockup in somewhat unconventional fashion inside the gearbox, through the use of two ...

Ford first introduced an automatic transmission ... 351 Windsor and 351 Cleveland." The AOD transmission and torque converter are a matched pair, as the AOD uses a hollow two-piece input shaft ...

the Ford AOD, and all the rest, the new-car companies were striving for improved fuel economy using overdrive. Overdrive ratios drive the torque converter at speeds generally below normal coupling ...

Ford is recalling about 206,000 2004 and 2005 Ford Freestar and Mercury Monterey vehicles, because the torque converter output shaft may fail. If the torque converter output shaft were to fail ...

According to Ford, the recall is due to the vehicles possibly having torque converters with inadequately welded studs. The affected vehicles are equipped with a 2.0-liter gasoline engine with 6F35 ...

For North American Stainless (NAS) in Ghent, Kentucky, SMS group www.sms-group.com has successfully commissioned a torque retainer for the 160-ton AOD converter no. 1. The customer issued the ...