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So, if you specified a 4-speed when ordering your new '69 GTX or RT, BUT did not want an axle package, then you got a DANA with 3:54 gears minus the requisite "max cooling" that would have been included were you to have ordered an axle package? Thus, your car would have had the 055 radiator installed?
Very interesting.....

I always thought that a 4-speed GTX,RT, or 440/426 Charger RT automatically came equipped with an axle package?



It's just one of those quirks that you have to learn and work through.

If you wanted a four speed in say a 383 Charger or sport Satellite, all you had to do was check the D21 box and that's it. You got a four speed.

You couldn't do that with a 440 or Hemi car. The only way to get a four speed was with the A33 Track Pac group that included the four speed, Dana, 055 et al.

While the A33 does include the 3.54 Dana, it's not necessarily considered an 'axle package' like the others are.

Odd...but true.

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