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Auto stop/start is big with Ford. I wouldnt have it. Always defaults on
unless you mod it or buy a kit. Ford says they have a better starter & battery so no extra wear. Begs the question why not put the better stuff in ALL the cars ? With manuals I almost always started in 2nd. Only time for 1st was when you were doing comparative driving or a smoke show. Another feature lost on automatics is the D2 that skips 1st. In snow both my Crown Vic & Roadmaster would just spin the tires in 1st the second you let off the brakes. Interesting thing on gearing. The Mt. Washington Auto Road uses GMC vans as limos. https://mtwashingtonautoroad.com/guided-tours They are geared so you have to accelerate to go DOWN hill. Let off the gas & you come to a stop. 73 Zeno LFOD ! |
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Kinda late here, But I have a 1990 Dodge w250 with an NP435 granny 4 (and likely 4:10 gears in the diffs) and I never take off out of first unless I'm ripping small trees out of the ground. 1st is like 6:1 or something ridiculous like that. It even says in the manual to take off out of second for normal driving.
I'm also not crazy about the old 4 speeds. my truck is at 3000rpm at 65mph in 4th. |
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There's a series of videos on YouTube of a school bus that was refitted with a 5-speed main and a 4-speed auxiliary. The two guys I saw drive it took off in second/low except for when demonstrating granny low and later on pulling out a badly stuck 4x4. A car we used to have had a really wide gap between third and fourth, the latter only being used at highway speeds. I suppose one's level of satisfaction with 4-speeds depends on whether or not fourth is an overdrive. Early on when I was practicing on a manual, that particular car was tricky to get into low so I accidentally ended up in third a couple of times. Once I actually succeeded in taking off in third which really bogged down the engine as I had pulled onto an incline. Once I realized what happened I made the mistake of downshifting all the way into low; the engine roared and when I shifted back in second the tires screeched a bit, prompting a chuckle from the guy who owned the car. Nevertheless, even then I was better at driving a manual than Captain Kirk. |
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I know! I actually had a 54 or 53 Chrysler New Yorker in the shop once. Was the first model year for Chrysler's first actual automatic transmission (not counting the manual with a torque converter [although ironically, this transmission WAS a manual with a torque converter, just automatically shifted by a coffee-can-sized solenoid]). The service manual was with the car and I read up on the transmission. You had to change the engine and transmission oil altogether, because they shared the oil. Must've been an expensive oil change.
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It also has what they refer to as "Autostick". You can go through the gears like a manual. |
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I was told once they used to do brakes every 2 weeks about 675 miles ! The new vans never need brakes, you only have to use them twice per trip. Anyhows its abt 4000 feet up in 8 miles & really tests the cooling, brakes & tranny. You can actually smell a car coming ! 73 Zeno LFOD ! |
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