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With a buddy's help, and a pair of 6" long guide bolts with the heads cut off, it eventually went in. Turned out the pilot bearing had popped out when we pulled the tranny, and was blocking the shaft from going back in, took us awhile to figure that out, not a lot of access with the blow bell I'm using!
I'm beginning to doubt my mechanic's abilities, the tranny let go yesterday morning, the full power, power shift from 2 to 3 (or was it the 3 to 4 shift?) got really noisy all of a sudden! Shut it down and coasted to the side of the road. A buddy happened to come by with his rollback truck, gave me a quick ride back to my house....
Now I get to pull it out again, should be gettin good at that my now....
Not sure what I'm gonna do with it, I do have a built th400 in a bop case, and I have a 425 flex plate, they are balanced different then the 455 Olds flex plate with a slightly different crank flange bolt pattern, so I could put the th400 in, would require a different length driveshaft. No decision yet....
The DN is rated at 450 ft.lbs, I'm probably giving it a little more then that....
And that's usually the rating for first gear, the higher ratio gears will usually take more, it usually increases as the gear ratio decreases...
And I always figgured my street tires would break loose before the rating got exceeded, a common experience in this car in first and second gear, third would sometimes break loose too, if I was up in rpm and on boost then I shifted, but not so much....
Am also considering a Lenco ST1200...
Always thought those looked really cool with all those shift levers sticking up out of the floor....
I'm beginning to doubt my mechanic's abilities, the tranny let go yesterday morning, the full power, power shift from 2 to 3 (or was it the 3 to 4 shift?) got really noisy all of a sudden! Shut it down and coasted to the side of the road. A buddy happened to come by with his rollback truck, gave me a quick ride back to my house....
Now I get to pull it out again, should be gettin good at that my now....
Not sure what I'm gonna do with it, I do have a built th400 in a bop case, and I have a 425 flex plate, they are balanced different then the 455 Olds flex plate with a slightly different crank flange bolt pattern, so I could put the th400 in, would require a different length driveshaft. No decision yet....
The DN is rated at 450 ft.lbs, I'm probably giving it a little more then that....
And that's usually the rating for first gear, the higher ratio gears will usually take more, it usually increases as the gear ratio decreases...
And I always figgured my street tires would break loose before the rating got exceeded, a common experience in this car in first and second gear, third would sometimes break loose too, if I was up in rpm and on boost then I shifted, but not so much....
Am also considering a Lenco ST1200...
Always thought those looked really cool with all those shift levers sticking up out of the floor....