List of AMC Transmission Applications

American Motors Corporation (AMC) and Jeep used a variety of transmissions and transfer cases.

This covers all AMC (1954+) and Jeep (1946+) variants thru 1988, and those legacy designs retained by Chrysler after 1988. This includes:

Early AMC (1955-1971) Automatic

Model OEM Transmission
Material		 Gears Cooling Engine Behind Years Used
Hydramatic
Flash-away		 GM Iron 4 oil/water All 6/250/327 1956–1957
Ultramatic Packard Iron 2 oil/water 320 1955–1956
M-8 Borg-Warner Iron 3 oil/water 196/250/287/327 1957–1964 (196 thru 62)
M-10 Borg-Warner Iron 3 oil/water 287/327 1965–1966
M-11 Borg-Warner Iron 3 oil/water 343/360 1967–1971
M-11A Borg-Warner Iron 3 oil/water 290 4bbl 1967–1971
M-11B Borg-Warner Iron 3 oil/water 304/360 1970–1971
M-12 Borg-Warner Iron 3 oil/water 360/390/401 1968–1971
M-35 Borg-Warner Aluminum 3 air 196 1963–1965
M-36 Borg-Warner Aluminum 3 air 199 1966–1969
M-37 Borg-Warner Aluminum 3 air 232 1966–1969
M-40 Borg-Warner Aluminum 3 oil/water 290 2bbl 1967–1969
M-42 Borg-Warner Aluminum 3 oil/water 199 1970–1971
M-43 Borg-Warner Aluminum 3 oil/water 232 1970–1971
M-44 Borg-Warner Aluminum 3 oil/water 304 1970–1971

Early Jeep Automatic (19xx-1971)

The Borg Warner automatic transmissions were used with the 230 OHC Jeep Tornado engine in M715s and Jeep pickups and Wagoneers.

The Buick 350 V8, 225 V6, and AMC 327 V8 engines used a nailhead pattern TH400 (also known as unipattern as it was used by many other manufacturers such as Rolls Royce and Jaguar with an adapter ring) during the mid to late-1960s. The AMC engines also used the TH400 with an adapter from 1969 until late 1973 when AMC bought a TH400 case with the AMC pattern already cast. The TH400 AMC case was used until the end of 1979 model production.

The 232 AMC Straight-6 engine used in 1968 to 1971 Jeeps likely used the Borg Warner automatic (they were in the Jeep DJ "Postal Jeeps", but these vehicles were 2WD) as they were a smaller pattern than the AMC V8 until 1972.

Late AMC/Jeep (1971-2006) Automatic

AMC phased out the use of the Borg-Warner Shift-Command transmissions when the company transitioned to using the Chrysler Torqueflite. AMC branded the Torqueflites as the Torque Command using the previous naming convention - both the A-727 and A-904 (including the later 999 derivatives) were used with the addition of the Aisin-Warner 4 (AW4) used with the Jeep XJ series. Jeep vehicles throughout the 1970s used the GM Turbo Hydramatic 400 - the use of the GM transmission goes back to 1967 where Kaiser-Jeep installed the Buick V6 in the Jeep CJ series.

Model OEM Transmission
Material		 Gears Cooling Engine Behind Years Used Division
727 Chrysler Aluminum 3 oil/water 258/360/401 1972–1987 AMC & Jeep
904 Chrysler Aluminum 3 oil/water 121/150/232/258 and 151 Iron Duke 1972–1987 AMC & Jeep CJ
998 Chrysler Aluminum 3 oil/water 258/304 1972–1987 AMC
999 (30/32RH) Chrysler Aluminum 3 oil/water 232/258 and 150 (2.5L) 1980–2002 AMC, Jeep
THM400 GM Aluminum 3 oil/water 232/258/304/360/401
Buick 350/327/230		 1965–1979 Jeep
AW4 Aisin Warner Aluminum 4 oil/water 242 (4.0) 1987–2006 Jeep
500SE (42RE) Chrysler Aluminum 4 oil/water 242 (4.0) 1993–2004 Jeep
42RLE Chrysler Aluminum 4 oil/water 3.7, 4.0 (242) 2002–present Jeep

Early AMC Manual

Model OEM Transmission
Material 		Gears 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Rev Cooling Engine Behind Years Used Division
T4 Borg Warner Aluminium 4.03, 2.37, 1.50, 1.00, 3.76 Oil I-6 1982–1986 Jeep
SR4 Borg Warner Aluminium 4.07, 2.39, 1.49, 1.00, 3.95 Oil I-4 1979–1981 AMC & Jeep
SR4 Borg Warner Aluminium 3.50, 2.21, 1.43, 1.0, 3.39 Oil I-6 1979–1981 AMC & Jeep

See Also

List of Chrysler transmissions (for list of transmission used in AMC vehicles after Chrysler buyout)