Re: [Amc-list] 360/390 4-speed (slightly OT)

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Depends on the actual trans you are looking at.
Most of the true toploading Fraud trans are blocky as hell to shift!
The trick for this type trans is the one out of a Granada or Mustang II.
It is actually a True toploader 4 speed reminiscent of the older 1-1 first gear toploaders.
except as in the truck tranny you mention 3rd was made 1-1 and 4th is .80ish. The shifter lever on the side of the case was flipped to allow a standard shiftr to work!
   I always have hankered for one of these trans hooked to a column shifter for four on the column! With a small reverse lever or puch pull rod on the floor or under the dash for  reverse!
   You could probably use an O/drive cable if you wanted to!

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Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

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From: d stohler <das24rules@xxxxxxxxx>
> i have a 71 ford f100 4x4 that has the 360fe in it. i have a newprocess 435 
> behind mine. or so i was told when i got it. never looked for #'s. i know its 
> shifter goes into a hole on the top of the trans. i guess thats the "top 
> loader"?? hints the name? i dunno..... 
> 
> i do know that one trans ford used in the pickups, f150 and 250, they took 3rd 
> gear, made it a strait 1-1 ratio. 4th gear is an od. i forget what ratio. .80 
> maybe for 20%?? i forget now. i have a book on all that ford junk around 
> somewhere. 
> 
> if a guy to get rid of that god awfully low first gear,get a decent one in for a 
> car, one of them trans out of a 2wd could be helfer stout for a strip car... 
> dont know of any other gear ratios to fix granny gear. 
> 
> yes, yes, yes, before i saw the light in amc, i was a frod guy. second to amc, i 
> still more partial to frods than anything else. 
> 
> dave stohler
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> 
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