Strange... when were you gonna tell us you were planning on de-dually-izing it?
We only know what you've previously typed, I looked back and couldn't find it.
Did you move the little ships in the Battleship game as a kid too?
Well, It's gonna be run mainly on unlined country roads, where it's common for folk to do 50 in a 35 through the mountains, and when you're a foot and a half wider than normal and meet another car, **** gets squirrelly, quick. Plus, i'm not gonna be towing a house, and, i just never could dig the look, or the price of six tires versus 4. Personal taste more than anything, but it's gonna be a cruiser more than anything else. It just doesn't need to be super-ultra-heavy-duty.
And yeah, i did, but now i'm on to moving real Battleships.
The real automatic transmission workhorses in the 8 lug trucks were the TH400 & 4L80e.
I've read some older posts here on guys saying basically the TH400 sucks and the 700R4 is awesome because it has OD... sorry, but that's not true on a heavy duty truck. The TH400 is legendary for a reason: the sheer strength and durability is unmatched in automatics. Give me another transmission that can beat it in strength...I don't think even the HD offerings from Ford or Dodge of the era can hang out with it...the dragster guys have figured this out many decades ago.
The GVWR and CWVWR numbers the units were rated for don't lie.
Just because the lighter duty transmission has OD doesn't make it better than the HD transmission with a direct high gear, again, in a case where you are moving a 6,000 lb truck. Forget about towing something heavy with it...
That's absolutely fair, theres no doubt that they're built to move mountains... i just don't have any mountains that need moved. If i did ever go down to a 700r4 it would be coupled to a 350, and only because either the 454 or the TH400 blew. And for what i'll be doing with it, that combo would be fine.