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Old 03-17-2024, 09:29 PM   #12
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Default Re: Ford Liquamatic auto trans in '41 Merc/Lincoln- has anyone seen one?

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Originally Posted by tubman View Post
A lot of Chrysler Corporation products had this same setup in the early fifties. It caused me a few problems when I built my first T Bucket using a "baby hemi" in the early sixties.

I remember the car I took my engine out of at the junkyard had a clutch pedal with "Safety Clutch" molded into the rubber pedal pad.

Those Chrysler/Dodge units had a torque converter in the mix. You could literally stop the vehicle in gear with your foot on the brake pedal while the engine continued to idle.

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