Need help with manual ID

[73EB]

This supposedly came out of a 84 F-150, aluminum toploader. Any ideas? I was thinking SROD but it's not a side shift?

 

[Broncobowsher]

T170FT or RTS
A variant of the top loader overdrive

 

[Steve83]

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Would you mind posting the PN off the pushrod between the t-case shifter & t-case lever? I'm trying to expand my list. It should be "F2TZ-7B051-?" where the question mark is a letter.

 

[73EB]

Steve, do you think this is a TOD? I don't have it to take more pic's. a guy was wanting to trade that for some tires I had. He doesn't have the bell housing so I told him no go.
Jeff

 

[broncodriver99]

It's an RTS. As mentioned, a later version of the toploader overdrive. It uses a standard truck bellhousing.

 

[Steve83]

I'm not familiar enough with it to have an opinion. I just posted those pics for you to consider. If you have 2 people saying it's an RTS, I'd believe them.

 

[broncodriver99]

Here is the info I pieced together on the toploader overdrive variants:

SMOD= Side Mounted(shift) OverDrive (1978-1984)
SROD = Single (shift)Rail OverDrive (1980-1983 The funky rear mounted tube shifter)
RTS = Remote Tower(I have also seen Turret) Shift (1984-1987 TOD is another name for this transmission)

They are all variants of the Tremec T170F(RUG) transmission. The RTS transmissions are pretty good and getting scarce. Worth a couple of bucks to the right guy.

 

[Steve83]

Have you ever read why it's called "remote"? I'm curious because the shifter is directly on top of the trans, just like the NP435, the T18/19, the Mazdog M5OD-R1/2, and the ZF S5-42/47.



I guess I can see some similarities between that TOD (despite the errors I just noticed in that diagram) & the SROD, now that I really look for them...



And do you know what "RUG" stands for (if anything)?

 

[broncodriver99]

Have you ever read why it's called "remote"? I'm curious because the shifter is directly on top of the trans, just like the NP435, the T18/19, the Mazdog M5OD-R1/2, and the ZF S5-42/47.

I have always been curious about that. It doesn't make much sense to me, but that is what I have always seen it referred to.

I guess I can see some similarities between that TOD (despite the errors I just noticed in that diagram) & the SROD, now that I really look for them...


And do you know what "RUG" stands for (if anything)?

RUG goes back to the old Ford naming scheme. HEH, RAT, RAN, RUG. I don't know if the Ford naming system had any meaning other than application/engineering codes. The T170 line was based on the old toploader 4 speed(RUG). It was developed by Ford and contracted to Tremec for manufacture.