About the trannies being terrible in those t-birds this is true. I had a '96 Thunderbird LX 4.6L and the tranny went out in it 2 times before 60K miles. I found out why. Ford uses Mercon (sp) 3 and you need to use Mercon (sp) 5. I will try to get my buddy on here to explain it better. But it's about Mercon 3 breaks down too fast or something. Which leads to broken tranny.
