C6 or E40d in 89

[va350]

If I remember correctly Ford started offering the E4OD in 89 as an option and 90 as standard, is this correct? What would your guess be as to what transmission would be in this 89. I just talked to the owner and he didn't know. I didn't ask him if it had the OD button on the dash.

I was at Fun Land Saturday evening (Fun Land is like Chuck E Cheese), my son was at a birthday party and I saw this truck parked next to me. I wanted to talk to the owner and ask if it was for sale, I was thinking of offering him 5k. That's more than I thought I would pay for a 89 but it looked perfect. Sunday morning I was browsing craigslist and saw this truck. I knew it had to be the same truck and sure enough he was at Fun Land Saturday.

http://fredericksburg.craigslist.org/cto/3334740266.html

 

[Danielle]

Small world! Gorgeous truck. Are you going for it?

 

[riotwarrior]

That's a sharp looking truck for certain...very nice, hard to say which trans without peeking at the least...or asking owner...but damn nice truck...

 

[va350]

I think I'm going to look at it tomorrow. I'll have to sell something if I buy it, too many trucks in the driveway now.

 

[Darrin Tosh]

Its about a 50/50 toss up on the trans.

Beautiful Truck, but its kinda hard to believe that the owner doesn't know what trans it has!

 

[icanfixall]

I'm betting its the 4 spped E4OD trans. If it been rebuilt hopefully it was upgraded. If not then its about $2800.00 to rebuild and upgrade the first yeasr E4OD trans.

 

[va350]

That's about what I paid to have one upgraded and rebuild, it was a little cheaper but not much.

 

[trackspeeder]

I'm betting its the 4 spped E4OD trans. If it been rebuilt hopefully it was upgraded. If not then its about $2800.00 to rebuild and upgrade the first yeasr E4OD trans.

To rebuild the evil 89 E4OD plan on spending no less than $3000 clams. 89 is a one year only unit requiring many updates to make it a strong tranny.

From the CL description. I would just drive it. I bet the tranny is fine.

 

[va350]

I knew they made changes to the E4OD in 90 but I didn't know there was that much difference as far as rebuild cost, thanks for the info. I bought a 1990 new with an E4OD and had all kinds of problems with it. It was apparently the same tranny as they put in the 89's. After rebuilding it and doing some other work they finally replaced it which took care of the problems. All of this happened in the first year I had the truck and it was all covered under warranty. I never had a problem with the replacement and I put about 170k on it before I had it rebuilt.