[rotorwrench]

They would have had to change the pedals too since the designs tie into each other. That would have made for a pretty big 1/2 year change on the Mercury cars. Change one thing and two more things are affected. I guess they really wanted to use that new transmission. The Mercury also kept the 10-inch Borg & Beck clutch but they changed the disk hub for the 1-inch 10-spline input.