Posted by fixerupper on September 22, 2015 at 08:53:25 from (100.42.82.100):
In Reply to: O/T 79 Dodge tranny posted by fixerupper on September 21, 2015 at 10:47:52:
OK, I dug around in the glove box a little farther and found a tranny number on the delivery sheet. I bought this thing new and this stuff has never left the glove box. The tranny number is either NP4458 or NP445B. I'm leaning toward NP445B. It's hard to read a yellowed wrinkled 36 year old piece of paper. When the tranny went out the first time I got lazy and had a local mechanic replace it for me. He had a heck of a time finding this one. It came out of California and I am in Iowa so there must not be many around. He claimed it is more of a truck transmission than a pickup transmission.
This is not an overdrive transmission, the engine revs at darned near 3000 RPM's at 60 MPH but maybe this should be the time to look for an overdrive tranny if it will hold up. I don't pull with this pickup anymore.
Here's the build sheet
This post was edited by fixerupper at 09:01:39 09/22/15 2 times.
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