While I enjoyed working at Ford, there were some challenges. Here is one episode that still has me shaking my head, and this happened 16 years ago! I was an engineering supervisor. I had 10 engineers reporting to me, all working on developing transmission calibrations (“tunes”) for a certain transmission family. About this time there [...] More »

Part of developing cars and trucks involves attempting to drive our development vehicles in every way and every place that you, the customer, will drive yours. To this end I’ve been all over the US, Canada, and even Mexico. Usually we went to the extreme places at the wrong time of the year. In January [...] More »

In the early 80’s Ford was going to put the 2.3L Turbo engine from the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe into a regular cab short bed Ranger. I was working at Roush Industries at the time and was assigned to this program. We had a half dozen development trucks and we were progressing through the testing required [...] More »

In the early 80’s Ford was going to put the 2.3L Turbo engine from the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe into a regular cab short bed Ranger. I was working at Roush Industries at the time and was assigned to this program. We had a half dozen development trucks and we were progressing through the testing required [...] More »

One of the most fun projects I worked on at Ford was the E4OD/4R100 transmission for the off road racing community. We built transmissions for a Class 8 truck, which later became a Trophy Truck. They ran in SCORE and BITD events. The transmissions we sent were not THAT far from stock, but they did [...] More »

We were trying to recruit other top notch teams to run our E4OD transmission. Rob MacCachren was and still is one of the best off road racers of all times. He had just won the Trophy Truck championship with a largely outdated truck. He had a fairly low budget for the time. He was really [...] More »

Welcome to my first blog post for Ford-Trucks! If you’re a regular on the forum, you might recognize my name, as I’ve been contributing here for years. Under strict instructions from the editorial staff, I’m going to write about whatever I happen to think of. Look out. Some of it will be technical, some of it [...] More »