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Post by McCauley5983 Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:48 pm

junk
[img]transmission Th350_10[/img]
m22 wide ratio
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nothing beats a shifter
[img]transmission Shifte10[/img]
still working on floorboard but its coming along
[img]transmission Sheetm10[/img]
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Post by Limey SE Mon Nov 21, 2011 12:12 am

ooooohhhhhhhhh I so hate you right now LOL Looks good bro

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Post by McCauley5983 Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:18 am

Thanks its been a long work in progress to get this thing going again
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Post by Limey SE Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:26 am

what did you use to cover the trans hole ??

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Post by McCauley5983 Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:03 am

The parts place floor board hump. They had a lot of the parts to help with the conversion. And everything looked had made. The thing I was bummer about was that I couldn't get a pedal bump stop so I had to make one ,gm discontinued the neutral safety switch and I'm gonna have to adapt a camaro clutch pushrod boot to the firewall
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Post by pila Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:15 am

Looks great. Is the auto trans really junk ? If not, maybe you can get some bucks out of it, to someone who can't afford a rebuilt one. I never scrap transmissions Very Happy

The Parts Place has been great with me. New windshield, gas tank etc and best prices for those parts.

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Post by McCauley5983 Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:09 am

The transmission fluid is like dark choclate milk its not pretty. It got so hot it blew the seal out of the back of it. Oooooops drunken
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Post by texan01 Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:01 pm

I've got one TH-350 that works great... as long as you want to go backwards. I've also got a 700-R4 thats great at making noise, not so good at actually propelling the car.

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Post by 77mali Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:07 pm

Not all that familiar w/ the old 4 spd's, are they cooled through the radiator like the automatics? Sounds like a problem.
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Post by texan01 Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:35 pm

77mali wrote:Not all that familiar w/ the old 4 spd's, are they cooled through the radiator like the automatics? Sounds like a problem.

No they aren't cooled by anything but the air flowing over them under the car. I think he was talking about his turbo-350 he pulled out, he must have gotten it hot at one point to blow seals out.

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Post by Tom77 Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:12 pm

If you find a old retired GM guy like I did he can totally rebuild with a shift kit for 150.
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Post by pila Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:12 pm

Keeping old/used & mis-used transmissions around for parts, is what I do.
For example, changing the tail shaft & housing to a short one from a longer one etc. The parts come in handy.
I have only one 350 at this point, but keep it for a rebuild.

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Post by McCauley5983 Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:41 pm

I don't like automatics in general I think there garbage
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Post by 99B4C Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:26 am

billy-ray wrote:I don't like automatics in general I think there garbage

I think every 73-77 I went to look at in Phoenix had a blown 350 trans and brown and silver fluid.

I wish I could afford the manual trans conversion, makes the drive so much more fun.


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Post by McCauley5983 Sun Nov 27, 2011 1:36 am

The dry heat isn't auto friendly
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Post by texan01 Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:35 am

Mine had a dying TH350 when I bought it. Had no 3rd gear and no reverse. Then it eventually had all the gears again, then lost all forward motion. Turned out to be sticking govenor and fluid that hadn't been changed since Carter was President.

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Post by 1973chevelle Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:35 am

where can i get a clutch pedal setup for my 73 SS?, dad gave me a 3 speed muncie with a brand new clutch to bolt behind the 454.
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Post by McCauley5983 Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:25 am

I found 2 places online that carries them one being the.partsplace ill find the other one and get.back to you keep in mind though that there are a.few things Ur gonna have to make until you either find own stuff or a company sells aftermarket.these being the clutch pushrod firewall boot a clutch pedal bumpstop the neutral safety switch has been discontinued by gm so they are a little expensive suprisingly rock auto has them if they are in fact the right.one.also I'm still looking for a shift boot I might get one for a camaro and see if its the same since it looks identical and you can modify the camaro clutch pushrod boot to work if your a little creative if you have any questions when and if you do the conversion let me know ill help you out as much as possible
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Post by pila Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:03 pm

That's a good indication that the trans oil should be changed more often. Some manuals say 24,000 miles. Most people never change it, from what I've found.
And sometimes when it's changed with high mileage on the trans, the trans will fail when the new oil cleans the crap loose in there.
Sometimes we can't win ! Very Happy

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Post by texan01 Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:28 pm

pila wrote:That's a good indication that the trans oil should be changed more often. Some manuals say 24,000 miles. Most people never change it, from what I've found.
And sometimes when it's changed with high mileage on the trans, the trans will fail when the new oil cleans the crap loose in there.
Sometimes we can't win ! Very Happy

Well.. the odometer read 10,486 when I got it. I believe it had a 1 in front of all that but then again there's no telling how many miles it went with a broken speedo cable and gear. I swapped it out with a good one I had from my 76.


Rowing my own in that car would be interesting but I do loves my front bench, a floor shift would be funky.

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