1958 Cruise O' matic

[Guest imported_phil-from-france]

Hi,

A friend of mine has a '58 Mercury with the Cruise-o-matic (pushbutton) transmission:

There are two strange positions : "brake" and "H C" (hill climb). I think that one is analog to 1 and the other to 2 (or rather 1-2 or Low) . Right ?

Which is the "1" and which is the "2" ?

And "performance" is 1-2-3 and "cruisin" is 2-3 , right ?

thanks

[KULTULZ]

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Hi,

A friend of mine has a '58 Mercury with the Cruise-o-matic (pushbutton) transmission:

There are two strange positions : "brake" and "H C" (hill climb).

And "performance" is 1-2-3 and "cruisin" is 2-3 , right ?

thanks </div></div>

There were two transmissions in the 1958 MERC (and variations of those);

The earlier MERC-O-MATIC (larger case size than FORD-O-MATIC) and

The new MULTI-DRIVE (Dual Range-1st or 2nd gear start chosen by driver).

BRAKE is actually the release for the vacuum assist parking brake.

HILL CONTROL is provided for extra pulling power. When it is pressed, the transmission is shifted into manual LOW. H/C leaves the trans in manual LOW and should not be used at speeds greater than 30MPH.

You have PERFORMANCE and CRUISING correct.

[57Mercfan]

Thoae old mercury engineers thought of everything !! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />