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- Dec 23, 2011
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- Colstrip, MT
- Vehicle Year
- '91, '93
- Make / Model
- Ford 2x
- Engine Size
- 4.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
And WHAT, pray tell, might I have found?
Only the very thing I never HOPED to find: a VERY cheap FM145 tranny for my DD '93 Explorer. How cheap? Well, it was an absolute, no reserve auction of the remains of a quit-the-business, moved-on-to-other-stuff tranny shop, and I got it for $12.00 entire dollars. My max bid was $35, and no one else bid after the first guy at opened the ball for $2.00. HIS max must have been $10, because there were only the 2 of us bidding on this tranny. It may turn out to be a DuPont overhaul, but it is clean, and has the hallmarks of a shelf-worn rebuild that was built and never sold. But it's mine now, and I'll pick it up Thursday next week. I was fully expecting to walk away downtrodden upon finding the price of a junkyard tranny to be in excess of $500.00, and being forced into the A4LD as a final choice.
NOW THEN... I have a couple questions about the FM trannies...what're the differences between the 145 and 146? They are the same application, same parts lists, lots of interchange between them. The tag reads "E67A-FA", with an original build code 065208. It looks to me that the thing came out of the factory in '86.
Now 'all' I have to do is come up with the flywheel, shifter, starter, pedal set, T.O bearing and clutch bits to make the change-over happen. The DD has a sad, sad A4LD that needs a torque converter anyway and is slated to come out of service for repairs in a few days. Almost all the stuff I need off the parts Explorer is ready, but it's another A4LD. Great timing, no?
Maybe I'll be able to get the thing knocked out by August.
Only the very thing I never HOPED to find: a VERY cheap FM145 tranny for my DD '93 Explorer. How cheap? Well, it was an absolute, no reserve auction of the remains of a quit-the-business, moved-on-to-other-stuff tranny shop, and I got it for $12.00 entire dollars. My max bid was $35, and no one else bid after the first guy at opened the ball for $2.00. HIS max must have been $10, because there were only the 2 of us bidding on this tranny. It may turn out to be a DuPont overhaul, but it is clean, and has the hallmarks of a shelf-worn rebuild that was built and never sold. But it's mine now, and I'll pick it up Thursday next week. I was fully expecting to walk away downtrodden upon finding the price of a junkyard tranny to be in excess of $500.00, and being forced into the A4LD as a final choice.
NOW THEN... I have a couple questions about the FM trannies...what're the differences between the 145 and 146? They are the same application, same parts lists, lots of interchange between them. The tag reads "E67A-FA", with an original build code 065208. It looks to me that the thing came out of the factory in '86.
Now 'all' I have to do is come up with the flywheel, shifter, starter, pedal set, T.O bearing and clutch bits to make the change-over happen. The DD has a sad, sad A4LD that needs a torque converter anyway and is slated to come out of service for repairs in a few days. Almost all the stuff I need off the parts Explorer is ready, but it's another A4LD. Great timing, no?
Maybe I'll be able to get the thing knocked out by August.
