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Operating from a one-hundred-thousand square foot facility, Mustang is an engineering and
manufacturing company, producing the most advanced chassis, engine and transmission
dynamometers in the world. Mustang offers a complete lineup of the industry’s most
sophisticated and technically advanced transmission dynamometers for testing light to heavy-duty
in-line and cross-drive transmissions. For the transmission rebuilder market, Mustang
also offers a number of specialized testing solutions including computerized Valve Body
Testers, Solenoid Testers, and Transmission Control Modules. Mustang’s latest product
innovation for automotive transmission repair and remanufacturing professionals is the MAE-LDU-40,
the most advanced, next-generation dynamometer for testing automatic passenger car and light
truck inline and transverse transmissions. The MAE-LDU-40 offers a host of advantages
and enhanced capabilities for today’s modern transmission remanufacturers, like the ability
to test transmissions with CAN communication. The MAE-LDU-40 dynamometer is by far the most
robust and easily adaptable test system on the market. Test a wide variety of domestic
and foreign rear-wheel transmissions without the need to purchase countless custom mounting
plates. Set up stall tests quickly and easily on strong frame that will never twist. All
this makes the LDU-40 the strongest, quietest and most robust transmission dyno on the market.
Our patented Universal Adapter Plates virtually eliminate the need to have expensive custom
plates for each transmission you need to test. Mustang’s system easily adjusts to fit any
torque converter without the need for complicated spacers and bushing combinations. With the
high testing throughput of the LDU-40, you’ll be able to test more transmissions every day
with the time you save loading and unloading. Our rotating head stock also allows you to
easily adapt and configure the test stand to test front wheel drive transverse transmissions,
including Honda and Mitsubishi, and longitudinal 42LE transmissions such as the Chrysler A606.
Mustang’s use of U-joint drive shafts simplifies setup and dramatically minimizes the chance
of damaging rear seals due to misalignment issues. The LDU-40 achieves the highest level
of accuracy in the industry thanks to its high quality electronics package. Cradle-mounted
PAUs and precision strain-gauge-type load cells on each output PAU provide continuous
feedback to the control loop, allowing for more precise load control and more accurate
testing results. A 30-tooth speed encoder ensures a higher resolution speed signal,
and therefore a more accurate gear ratio calculation. The LDU-40 also includes Mustang’s Transmission
Control Module, The MAE-TCM, standard with every unit. The TCM gives you the ability
to test a transmission using the correct frequency and duty cycle, which ensures that the transmissions
are being tested exactly as they perform in a vehicle. The most important feature of the
LDU-40 dynamometer is the power and flexibility of Mustang’s TransTester Control Software,
the true heart of the system. With TransTester, you get a software package that makes testing
transmissions as simple or complex as you want it to be. Either set up a transmission
with an existing test sequence, or completely customize a new one. Included with TransTester
is a Script Builder Utility, a Shift Table Editor and a powerful graphing and data analysis
utility. The Script Builder Utility lets you add an unlimited number of scripted test procedures,
or modify existing ones. You can define an unlimited number of test steps, each of which
includes fully customizable testing parameters. For the Input and output parameters, you can
choose between speed, torque, power or manual mode and establish mode-specific set points
and ramp rates. The gear select control allows you to specify a gear range for this step.
The step prompt allows you to enter custom text to be displayed on the test screen during
this step in the test sequence. The Break on Value feature can command the software
to skip to a user defined step once a user defined condition is met. For example, once
a sump temperature of 180° is reached, skip to step 6. Reported channels allows the user
to define channels to record as well as minimum and maximum PASS/FAIL criteria for each defined
channel. Additional steps can be easily created by copying, pasting and editing existing steps.
TransTester’s Shift Table Editor ensures that you have the flexibility you need to
set up a new transmission when the need arises. Using the Shift Table Editor, you have the
ability to customize the software to shift any new transmission that may come through
your door. TransTester’s powerful graphing utility allows you to graph, analyze and export
all data in an Excel-friendly format. Mustang designed the LDU-40 to specifically address
the short-comings of the standard transmission dynos in the market today. The result is a
transmission dynamometer that is more easily adaptable, more accurate, more user friendly,
with a more flexible software and data acquisition package, and most importantly, is more sensible
from an economic standpoint. The LDU-40 Universal transmission dynamometer is a quantum leap
forward from the outdated systems that once upon a time were considered state-of-the-art.
Take your transmission testing to an unprecedented level of accuracy, efficiency and usability.
There is a better way to test your light-duty automotive transmissions: Mustang’s MAE-LDU-40.
Smarter by design.