94 Atx Transmission Interchange ?

[customperforman]

Since the windstar has a similar ax4n transmission why cant i use one in my 94 sho as long as its the same bellhousing bolt pattern? Is it a gearing, electronic or something other than a shifter linkage difference? Reason I ask is i just picked up a very clean 2 owner, all service records since new till 2 years ago when it was parked due to bad trans. It is a very clean inside and out no rust white edition with 50/50 grey leather interior car with no body damage and only 130 ,000 on the clock. I have been pricing transmissions and for what I paid for the car I may as well part it out cause of the cost of a new atx and I wont convert to a mtx cause the wife cant drive manual transmission. My local pull apart junk yards have several windstars and i can get a trans for like around $150 or less and many of them are fairly low mileage wrecked in the rear or side etc. If a windstar trans would work I would do it because I mainly bouhg tthe car to fix and sell after i drive it for while and I dont plan to race it or run it hard. being a windstar trans it would have to be a durable trans due to the fact its a van?

 

[hawkeye18]

The D4U1 will freak the heck out if you put a windstar AX4N in there. At the very least, you will get a ton of incorrect gear ratio codes and a bunch of other tranny codes that I can't quite remember because it's 4 in the morning and I've been up all night. I'm pretty sure that it won't work. Besides, isn't the windstar RWD? I can't tell you for absolute sure, but my educated guess would be "no". I bet you, however, that there is somebody on this list that has an AX4S that they would let you have for cheap... as long as you go get it! There are tons of SHO people in wisconsin and minnesota, many of whom have SHOs numbering it the double and maybe even triple digits. *cough Al* Anyway, Best of luck to you... and yeah, we've all been in that boat. I'm still paying off a $2600 loan from when my 94 spat its diff pin through the case.

As far as your wife goes, you sir, have only failed to teach her! lol my wife didn't know how either, but I got a Probe GT and made her learn... she didn't hurt the clutch too bad. best o' luck to ya!

 

[Mr95Gl]

I think the Windstar is FWD, not RWD. Either that, or the several motors that I've seen were facing the wrong way!

 

[customperforman]

Winstar is based off the taurus platform so it shares alot of taurus driveline.

As far as it goes for my wife she has a driving restriction to auto only cause of a medical condition. She doesnt have much strength in the left leg. Otherwise she has driven them in the past before being disabled and restricted.


I am surprised both of you didnt know the windstar is front wheel drive based of the taurus.

 

[SHOsFAST]

Wasn't there a RWD windstar for a while? late 80's I think? Or was ti AWD? I dunno

 

[Mr95Gl]

Nope. The windstar was introduced in 1995 or 96. You might be refering to the Aerostar.

 

[92inPA]

Here are links to three pdf documents that should prove helpful to you. These articles were written in 1997, so they only note information thru 1996. Since this is a Gen 2 discussion, you should enjoy reading these.

AX4S_springs.pdf

AX4S_AX4N_Differences.pdf

AX4S_AX4N_Interchange.pdf

 

[hawkeye18]

Winstar is based off the taurus platform so it shares alot of taurus driveline.

As far as it goes for my wife she has a driving restriction to auto only cause of a medical condition. She doesnt have much strength in the left leg. Otherwise she has driven them in the past before being disabled and restricted.


I am surprised both of you didnt know the windstar is front wheel drive based of the taurus.

*sigh* yeah, I was thinking the aerostar. Again with the whole "4 AM" thing. My bad. And also my bad on your wife. I didn't know about medical restrictions. That having been said, I do know for a fact that the drive chain gear ratios were different on most of the different versions of the AX4S. I know I read a PDF that spelled them all out. I'll just shut up now...