Re: [AMC-List] 3 sp transmission wanted

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For towing, you'd be hard pressed to beat the 727, Go with a low gear set for extra grunt if your rebuilding it IIRC they are not that expensive. That way you can keep Higher gears in the axle and still get the rig rolling. For top of the line pulling and cruising throw in a Gear vendors overdrive! then you have a full 6 speed automatic! of course your wallet will be $2500-$3000 lighter by the time you buy the controller and everything.
   For stick and towing, hmmmm AMC V-8 hookup, hmmmmm. If you want the column shift you could go to a T-10 or the heavy V-8 three speed. A friend had a Late 60's Chevy Pickup with a column shifted T-10 in it. It was way cool! The 4 forward gears where on the column. For reverse you put the column in neutral and pulled up on a knob sticking up thru a bushing in the floor! It was tucked close to the seat and almost invisible.
  Most modern Manuals are going to require going to floor shift. A Z-code T-5 with an s-10 tailhousing would clear the bench nicely, get the 3:35 first gear for towing.
  You could also get a low first geared 4 speed from a Jeep Or Ford pickup and use high rear axle gears. Most all of these trans are going to shift from the top plate on the trans though.
  Well, I'm not building it, so I'll let others chime in on this one!
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Jim Boone <fljab@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> OK, now that I've seen my last post online, I know this route works.  I had 
> tried to post this a day or so ago and it never made it.
> 
> I have a stock-rebuilt '73 360 that I want to put into my '67 Rebel Station 
> Wagon.  Hate to do it in a way as the stock 232 runs really well and I get 
> ~22mpg out of it.  But, I need more power as I'd like to have it tow-capable 
> for my other car (the '69 American mentioned in the T5 post).
> 
> I've been tossing around different transmission options.  I have both a 727 
> and two 998's, but truth be told, I really dislike auto's.  Just a personal 
> preference.
> 
> I was thinking if I could find a V8 capable 3 sp that I could put behind 
> that 360, and hook it up to my 3-on-the-tree somehow.  I have two sets of 
> the stock t96 linkage.
> 
> If someone has a good used trans out there, I'm interested.  I'd need the 
> complete setup, bellhousing to yoke.  My crossmember would probably work, 
> will have to see.  If it came out of a column shift car, the linkage would 
> be nice, too.
> 
> I may still go with one of the automatics, and would probably be a smarter 
> choice, but figured it wouldn't hurt to ask about this other way.
> 
> Jim Boone
> Mims, FL
> 
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