This month we are back on Project Update, the '56 F-100 that had been hot-rodded decades ago, but as with many classic trucks could benefit from some modern updates. We tackled the age-old hood hinge ...

Horse Sense:The NMRA apparently recognizes the drag-racing capabilities of the AOD/AODE, since it no longer gives these automatics a weight break versus a manual gearbox in either Factory Stock or ...

Ford’s hardy cable-modulated Automatic Overdrive (AOD) was produced from 1980 to 1991, then became an electronically controlled transmission known as the AOD-E in 1991. Later, the AOD-E became the ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, SECTION 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CARS, Part 2 (1995), pp. 1689-1697 (10 pages) A transmission system model for Ford Motor Company's automatic transmission (AOD) system used ...

Question: I have a 1989 Ford Taurus SHO with the manual transmission. I’m having trouble shifting into first gear. It just feels like there’s nothing there — no grinding, nothing. Any ideas? Matt ...