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Originally Posted by 42Ford M-H
I forgot to mention I opened the under drive to check out the gear ratio. LOL 5:1
The older gentlemen i bought it from told me a quick story when i was loading the truck. Apparently his neighbor was bragging he could tow that backwards with his new chevy 4x4 I'm guessing late 80's early 90's. So they chained them up, he put everything in in low gear including the under drive, let out the clutch... Got out of the truck and was talking to the guy thru his drivers window as he was getting towed backwards.. LOL
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The above comment brings to mind a demonstration I watched at a Ford Dealership in Idaho in the mid '50's.
Ford was touting the new automatic transmissions they were offering in the F100 pickups. Ford claimed that the automatic trans would pull a stick backwards, two F100's were hooked together, back to back.
No matter what the driver of the stick trans did, the automatic would pull the stick backwards with it's tires smoking.
Plain and simple, an automatic will put more usable torque to the wheels..