FPGT24
Eat, sleep, breathe Explorers
- Joined
- December 12, 2011
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- City, State
- Taneytown, MD
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1997 Ford Explorer XLT
Just wondering if the 4.0L Cologne OHV V6 was available with the 5 speed automatic trans? Just picked up my 3rd Explorer last week...a 99 XLT in Deep Wedgewood Blue with the OHV V6. I've had a 97 XLT with the SOHC V6 and a 98 XLT with the SOHC a few months before I got this one. Both my SOHC's had the 5 speed auto. I cannot find anywhere if the OHV V6 was avail with the 5 speed automatic or not. I have steadily counted 4 shifts from a dead stop. Torque converter lockup happens shortly after the 3rd shift, then you can feel a 4th shift shortly after. It also shifts quickly like my SOHC's transmissions did. However, the transmission looks completely different from the ones that were in my SOHC's. The truck doesnt feel incredibly slow either like everyone says the OHV V6 is with the 4 speed auto, it launches pretty swiftly from a dead stop up like my SOHC's did till about 40 mph then it crawls like a snail to 60, in fact ive given up trying to get it to 60 it just seems like it cant do it. My SOHC's did 0-60 in 7 seconds flat with exhaust.