Greetings from the land of 1000 lakes!

[Hessu]

Hi all,

I registered to this forum mainly because it seems to be the leading source of Ford automatic transmission information I have an old british car (Reliant Scimitar GTE '75) with the Ford C3 transmission and I'm looking to upgrade to the A4LD. As a matter of fact, I've already got two of the said boxes laying next to the car in my garage... Looking forward to share my project!

 

[1Aauto]

Welcome to the site.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Welcome to this forum! The A4LD has electronic solenoids, VSS, and a neutral safety switch, and will require a computer to control it.

 

[Hessu]

Welcome to this forum! The A4LD has electronic solenoids, VSS, and a neutral safety switch, and will require a computer to control it.

There is a "no solenoids", 1 and 2 solenoid version out there but the first one is pretty hard to find (mine are the 1 and 2 type so far). I'm going to figure out a way to make it work in an old car but maybe more about that in the appropriate forum!

 

[BrooklynBay]

The overseas A4LD-e has no valve body solenoids, but it has an EPC solenoid in the place where the vacuum modulator normally goes.

 

[Sams01XplrSprt]

welcome aboard

 

[Hessu]

The overseas A4LD-e has no valve body solenoids, but it has an EPC solenoid in the place where the vacuum modulator normally goes.

I have found this pagediscussing the A4LDE. Looks like the shifts are fully electronic, there are 6 valve body solenoids and some additional sensors. Not something that I plan to use (at least not until cheap general purpose programmable transmission controllers become available). This is getting off topic

 

[BrooklynBay]

That is a 4R44E. The model that I was referring to has no solenoids on the valve body. This is the link: http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=239416

 

[Hessu]

^ I checked the Ford Technical Information System (TIS) CD, that Transit van transmission is referred as A4LD (not -e). It seems that Ford chose to use the old style version with diesels. That was upgraded with an electronic modulator, and the solenoids left out since there is no manifold vacuum in a conventional diesel engine.

It looks like 4R44E is dubbed A4LDE in Europe. :scratch: