Terrible Tom <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:
> jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
>>
>> My memory is a bit fuzzy but I believe the transmission is called a "Load
>> flite", just because it is installed in a truck/van but I do not recall now whether
>> it is based on the 904 or 727. I think you may be right about the 727
>> though, I found a lookup table that seems to indicate that the 904
>> wasn't used in vans until 1981.
>>
> the FSM calls the 3 speed non-OD tranny in the Gen I's a Loadflite and
> the OD versions are labled A-500.
I believe that any Torqueflite installed in a truck or van was
automatically called a Loadflite, so possibly the loadflite
terminology went away at the same time as the torqueflite terminology,
with the advent of the A-500/A-518? That would explain why the older
non-OD tranny was referred to by the old name whereas the new tranny
was simply the A-500.
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