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Automotive Basics
Most vehicles sold in the United States since the 1950s have had automatic transmissions. The vehicle’s gearbox is able to change the gear ratios automatically as the vehicle moves.
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Popular automatic transmission identification chart for Chrysler, Ford, and GM Automatic Transmissions with pan diagram.
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Enter the max potential engine RPM, tire size diameter, and target vehicle speed in MPH to calculate the differential gear ratio needed.
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Calculate potential speed based on the RPM of the engine, ring gear/pinion gear ratio, final transmission gear ratio, and tire diameter…
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Early Ford axles are easy to identify measurement or by referring to the photo scanned from an old magazine article by Neal East.
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Rear-end track width measurements of classic American cars including Chevrolet, Ford, and Mopar vehicle rear axle widths…
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Wheelbase Measurements for Popular Classic Cars: Buick, Chevy, Ford, Frazer, Kaiser, Lincoln, Mercury, and Nash.
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So you want to replace the transmission in your classic or custom? How do you know what will even fit? This handy chart will help.
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This film was made in the 1930s and is the best explanation of how a differential works we have seen to date.
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