Johnny do you believe there is a chance your syncros may have failed?



Was late 80s they started calling them 4L60 here, and they called them so because they have 4 forward gears, L for longitudinal layout (T for transverse, as in the 4T60), and 60 being the relative torque capacity.

I know you blokes seem to have alot of failures with these transmissions over there, but it just makes me wonder how many of these are sitting behind a stock standard engine, being driven the way they were designed to be driven, and being serviced often enough to keep the fluid nice and fresh.

They stopped using the 4L60-E equiped Holdens for taxis over here back in the mid 90s cause the transmissions were not going the distance you could expect from a Ford, but then they were not servicing the transmissions in these taxis very often either, they ran almost 24 hrs a day, no extra cooler (the Ford Falcons had an extra transmission cooler as part of the taxi pack), and only serviced every 100,000. Asking for a failure really isnt it.