Just looked at and drove a 92 Ford 150 Cargo van today..V8...auto...all the
bells and whistles.CC , air, ps, pb,etc...Real clean..used to haul baskets of
silk flowers., mostly freeway miles...one owner.. not beat up at
all.....white (of course).....I can buy it for $3K........
Here is the kicker..It has 232,000 miles...Gentle miles for sure with very
regular oil changes and so on...seems to be in good condition. Runs well,
everything works, passed smog with no problem...
Here is my question....it seems to have a real high 4th gear...REAL
high.....while floating along the freeway at 60 mph, any hill and it starts
to slow down rather quickly. Loses a lot of speed. Of course if you kick it
down it comes to life and roars right back up to speed. But it seems to have
no torque in top gear. It is not the transmission that has the button on the
end of the gear selector to switch it in and out of overdrive. I'm familiar
with that trans as another truck I often drive is a '92 Ford F150 PU with the
big 4.9 liter 6 cylinder engine and auto trans with auto overdrive. (button
on the selector)....That truck seems to not bog down as much up hills, and
when it needs to downshift it does it sooner and does not seem to go into as
low a gear as the van does.........
I'm thinking that these must be 2 different kinds of transmissions.. And that
the Van would be real annoying with any kind of a load.. ie towing a formula
ford.....
Anyone have an idea why these two 92 Fords would act so differently???
Thanks for all the wisdom I am sure is heading my way..
Jerry Burr
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