"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
12/19/2016 at 14:22 • Filed to: None
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"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
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Simple. Bulletproof. Purely functional, absolutely purposeful. It has one job to do, and it does it without fail for a half million miles or more. Why have engineers abandoned the beauty of simplicity?
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
12/19/2016 at 14:26 |
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Chrysler realized that it was too good for their image.
Steve in Manhattan
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
12/19/2016 at 14:28 |
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AW4 is ...?
Party-vi
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
12/19/2016 at 14:29 |
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Yes where have all the hot-running, power-sapping, maybe-I’ll-lock-up-maybe-I-won’t torque converter transmissions gone? The AW4 is a decent transmission, but not a good one. It was one of the best ever put into a Jeep, but that’s because every other Jeep auto trans was garbage.
jimz
> Party-vi
12/19/2016 at 14:40 |
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The 545RFE was pretty solid?
and the W5A580 is pretty stout, just expensive to repair if you do manage to break it.
Tristan
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
12/19/2016 at 14:45 |
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Mine went into the big green wheely bin after the AX-15 took its spot. About the best thing that can be said about the AW4 is that it was durable.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Party-vi
12/19/2016 at 14:47 |
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Still better than a BA10/5
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Party-vi
> jimz
12/19/2016 at 14:47 |
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The 545RFE was a solid fat pig, and ze Germans fucked up the fill tube design on the W5A580, and torque management to prolong its life made it a slow-shifter.
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Party-vi
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
12/19/2016 at 14:48 |
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The BA10/5 is French garbage. Runs hot, shitty shift points, and any application of power would turn it into a grenade. You are absolutely correct.
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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Party-vi
12/19/2016 at 14:50 |
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You’re just plain bitchy today!
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Party-vi
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
12/19/2016 at 14:54 |
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1) I am fancy-bitchy
2) I had to drive a BA10/5 for 7 years. It was garbage for all of them
FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
12/19/2016 at 15:20 |
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They’re probably all in David Tracy’s back yard.
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
12/19/2016 at 20:02 |
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The AW4 is certainly a rugged piece of kit. But I’m not a huge fan. (and I’ve got two of them right now). It doesn’t like being hot but gets that way easily, it shifts sllooooowly, and the torque converter makes it super slushy... it’s almost like driving a CVT. Half-thottle = 3500 rpm, and you just slowly build up speed to catch up.