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Thank you. My apologies for the misunderstanding.

I wonder if those tests were ran with the car in drive,or if they started out in low gear and then shifted to drive? Lots of people don't seem to know the FOM was actually a 3 speed auto that started out in second gear.

Nothing wrong with 4drs,and a 4dr that runs and drives beats the hell out of a convertible in parts.

Kinda like the old "saw" in the army about secrets. Pass one on to one guy,and by the time the 6th guy is whispering it to someone else,it has no relation to the first version. I doubt anybody here is old enough to have actually heard and witnessed what happened. i,for one,would like to find...

What more IS there to see? You see the transmission casting numbers,the output shaft,the drive shaft nose,and the data plate on the side of the transmission.

Thank you VERY much! I will read it and try to learn more once I get a little more rested.

Ok,I have now given up on posting photos of the 51 flat 6 FOM parts. I got one photo down to 231kb,and got a message it was too big to post. Thanks to chemo brain,I am just not as sharp as I used to be. If any of you want to see photos of the transmission and driveshaft,send me a PM with...

Ok,since I will never figure this out,if someone will PM me their email address,I will send them photos and descriptions,and they can then post the stuff for me. Thanks in advance, LazarusLong

Thanks,Mark. I don't remember seeing any "snark" back when I was posting here before,and am genuinelly surprised to see people sniping at me now because I provided some information they don't like,or are mad because they didn't know about it. Here are some photos of my Vicky as it sits in the...

So,you are calling me a liar?

Guys,I did take photos of the flat 6 FOM parts today,and then somehow deleted them from my phone while trying to post them. Hoping I have a better "chemo brain day" tomorrow.

I hope this thing gets bigger when you click it. Not very computer literate,but this is a list of the parts for a 1951 Ford Ford-O-Matic transmission,both 6 cylinder and V-8. I am ASSUMING that where there are no different parts numbers for a flathead 6,that those parts will work with either...

You were wrong because they WERE offered to the public. I also vaguely recall reading somewhere that the sold so poorly,at one point Ford just scrapped the unsold flat 6 FOM shoeboxes. Which kinda makes sense. Ford was all about V-8's back then,and the typical Ford buyer wanted a V-8. Add...

I have factory sales literature that says you are wrong.

Yup,FOM is shorthand for Ford-0-Matic,although it is usually abbreviated as F-O-M. I abbreviated even that here because I didn't think anyone here would be confused by it. My apologies.

Mr tubman,your understanding is perfect. I HAD to post about it here because I know of no other place with such dedicated shoebox fans,and as I had mentioned before,even the people at the Henry Ford Museum had never heard of or seen a flat 6 51 Ford with a FOM transmisson...

I'm weird. I bought the Vicky because it had a FOM trans,and I could get by with it until I could find the "right" 6 cyl biz coupe and the parts to convert it to auto trans. Yes,I know a C4 CAN be adapted to the flat 6,but I didn't want a C4. I wanted an original flat 6 auto trans option to...

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And I FINALLY found one and bought it all. Come to find out,even the tailshaft and the driveshaft are different than those on the flat V-8 FOMs. Can't say this stuff is rare,but a couple of years ago the Henry Ford Museum people told me they had never seen a flat 6 FOM. Now that I have...

Have you checked with the usual suspects,like Carpenter,MAC's,etc,etc,etc? I have sometimes had luck finding minor parts not being repoped by calling the Big Guys help line and just asking if they know anybody that has what I want for sale. If they know,they will tell you. Good luck! It's...