Transmission main shaft issue

[tomii]

Originally Posted by Tom Endy

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Ford also changed the diameter of the oil baffles on both the early and late input and main shafts. If you install the late baffles in an early housing you will bind up the transmission, Vendors today only sell the later larger oil baffle.

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Tom Endy

And THAT answered my own question of why the danged thing was hung up as soon as I'd tighten any bots (clearly, something was binding)


Some careful work on a grinding wheel fixed the problem.