Re: [Amc-list] T14 overdrive

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Have you considered remote mounting it?
I've seen at least one 4X4 that had one remote mounted under it.
Not sure of spacing and drive shaft issues.
Just thinking out loud!
Uh, if you can make one work can we hook one to Turbo 400?!!!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 15:57 +0000, farna@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > All B-W "R-10" OD units made (since the mid 40s at least) are
> > internally the same. Wiring varies with user. What makes it different
> > from trans to trans is the roughly 1" thick adapter plate between the
> > OD unit and rear of the trans. The solenoid mounts on the adapter. As
> > far as I've been able to determine the splines on the input gear
> > (female) on the OD unit is the same, the trans had a special short
> > output shaft cut to mate with those splines. All the outputs are the
> > same splines as well - at least as far as I've been able to determine
> > from research. I know they are the same on AMC six cylinder
> > transmissions, and that main internal parts from V-8 models will fit
> > (there is no V-8 model according to my research -- all are the same).
> > I've not had the opportunuity to mess with units used by other
> > manufacturers, but the BW sources I've found say there was just one
> > unit adapted to any size engine/transmission. I doubt a T-96 adapter
> > will fit a T-14, but it might. Then there would 
> >  the pr
> > oblem of the trans output shaft though. 
> 
> It all sounds so reasonable... (famous last words)
> 
> I figured I'd need to get the OD output shaft; though it's likely not a
> common part in stocks, since it can be ID'd by part number places like
> Galvin can check easily. With that part the rest is thinkable.
> 
> I have a vertical mill, I can make the adapter, even if it's slightly
> silly on my small mill. Only gotta make one! Mostly has to be parallel I
> think.
> 
> Since I have here a non-OD T14 in good shape, and a spare T96+OD in
> operable shape, I can consider flaying them both on the bench and
> eyeballing it.
> 
> Then I'd have to live with whatever the T96 rear-most spline. No big
> deal, I have the yoke.
> 
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