504 Workshop Manual

cootafrog

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I have recently passed on ownership of a moderately good 1974 504 Automatic to a Friend, who is planning on getting it back to something like new. But therein lies a problem. Car has a Borg Warner box rather than ZF. Looks original, so perhaps the way Australian Production happened. But it would be good to know a bit more, please? (And, of course, if anybody has an Australian Production Workshop Manual covering the B/W, that would be even better!)
Paul
 
Borg Warner : changing gears was like getting smacked in the back of the head with a lump of wood.
Some 504s came out with them, but many had the ZF.

Contact Ian Robbo on this forum and buy a good secondhand ZF from him. One from an early 505 will do the trick.
 
Borg Warner.....lump of wood.
BWs were fitted to one of the smoothest cars you could buy back then - the V8 powered P6 Rover. The twin carb V8, even though tuned down, was a much better pairing than the smaller Pug motor was with either transmission, On the Rover you didn't feel gear changes.

My first drive of an auto fitted 505 was a tremendous disappointment. The box killed it. The manual 505 was sooo much better.
 
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