It was a matter of necessity the GM Turbo-Hydramatic 700-R4 transmission ever happened at all. GM’s powertrain engineers were handed a challenge amid higher fuel prices and tougher government ...

General Motors’ Hydramatic Division can take credit for having designed and produced the most rugged and dependable domestic automatic transmissions ever done. In fact, the Hydramatics are so darned ...

In the early days of the automotive industry, manual-shift transmissions were the norm. Operating a clutch pedal and a shift lever peering up from the floorboard or mounted on the steering column was ...

For the price of the trans pan, valve body, and separator plate gaskets, the firmness and quickness of GM Turbo 400 upshifts and downshifts can be dramatically improved, according to Darrell Young's ...