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No highway yet, My test drive route is 10km on country roads and I did get it up to 100km/hr or about 65mph.
3.45 gears I believe it has a 19 tooth gear - it’s a grey/beige colour.
look who’s outside! [ATTACH] Woody just made it back from a test drive and everything seems to be working great! It shifts nice, doesn’t leak,...
[ATTACH]Here’s what the fordomatic and AOD speedometer gears look like. Obviously not interchangeable.
My brother bought this truck new in 2005 and passed away in 2006. I’ve been caretaker of the truck ever since. It takes care of all my towing and...
Solved my oil leak. Feeling dumb for leaving a fitting loose. [MEDIA]
Engine runs and no vibration from the modified flexplate! Time to put the transmission back in!
The adapter is from Performance Adapters. The flexplate is an off the shelf part that comes in the kit. I don’t blame the guy making the adapters,...
I need to make it more of a habit to check new parts thoroughly. It’s not unusual to get brake rotors that are warped out of the box and new...
I did a fair amount of work on the flexplate and I think it’s good to go now. There was a bad spot that I had to remove quite a bit of material to...
Wow, that’s more than the speeding ticket would be
I received new flexplate and it’s actually worse than then first one. so new plan is to mount the flexplate in a lathe and use a grinder to trim...
A neighbour was going to build a monster Miata until he saw my Factory Five Cobra. He decided the cobra made more sense for a v8 sports car. Now...
The old speedometer is hooked up and working but there is not a gear that will make it read accurately with the rearend gears I have. I had to...
Transmission is back out. That took about an hour. I confirmed with a dial indicator that the flexplate is intact .050 out of round accounting...
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