Re: 39 trans
Ford engineered the 39 top loaders to operate with a motor rated at 85-95 HP, and they handled that easily.....for responsible adult drivers who invested a significant chunk of money to purchase those vehicles. Things started to go haywire when they began to acquire some mileage, and the hormone fueled teenage boys began to drive them. Boys being boys, the motors began to grow in horsepower, while the rest of the drivetrain had to suffer along with little upkeep and alarming levels of abuse occurred. The final straw was the day that the poor Ford was entered into the local dirt track races......you could take bets on which lap the transmission would spew its guts into the dust. The race driver, being in a perpetual state of financial straits, would dash to his local salvage yard for a replacement transmission and he’d run that one into oblivion too. And these are the reasons folks think that the top loaders were no good......
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