Re: [AMC-List] Overdrive

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OOPs forgot about the 69 six cylinder issue!!!
Well, almost had an idear.
Tom Bunsey had an overdrive a while back. I don't know if he wanted to sell, but he may know there whereabouts of another if he's still reading the list.
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> " From: Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> " 
> " For low buck overdrive I would look for the overdrive four speed used
> " by Ford in the late 70's, The guts can be then swapped into a
> " toploader case and bolted up with AMC parts. This will then adapt to
> " the column shift, giving you four forward gears with over drive on
> " the column. For reverse you put the column in neutral and either use
> " a heavy overdirve type cable under the dash to engage reverse Or you
> " mount a rod discreetly up thru the floor and pull or push th e rod to
> " engage reverse.
> "  Is it worth all the work to gain overdrive and keep a column shift???
> " You decide! 
> "  You may be able to use the entire Ford overdrive four speed,
> " depending on shifter placement, it is a top shifted trans.
> "  The other lowbuck option is an S-10 shifted T5 with a nice old
> " fashioned gooseneck shifter. It would still look old school with a
> " white or black mushroom knob.
> 
> the o/d 4sp can be found in iron side-shifter cases, in late '70s
> granadas, and with a jeep-like cane shifter in early [mid?] '80s ford
> pickups.  matter of fact, if you're swapping the guts from a srod to
> an iron case you need the granada input as it's the correct length
> where the srod's is 5/8" too long.
> 
> alas, neither these nor the t5 will bolt to a '69 232 - hence the
> interest in the t14-o/d.
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