F150 tranny with overdrive

[Cape Codder]

Hi Carl,
On 7/15/15 you wrote:

Originally Posted by CarlG

When I installed my F150 Transmission, there was absolutely no cutting of the cross member or any part of the chassis at all. It was all bolt in. The wooden floorboard had to have the cut out for the shift lever enlarged a tad since the shift lever was about 1.5 inches aft of where the stock model A was. That's all! No metal was cut or drilled.

If you will I have a few questions. First, did yours come as a kit with everything supplied OR did you buy it piece by piece. As to the drive shaft did that have to be cut and machined? Not knowing any of this installation was a AA Bell Housing used or is all of that included with the F150? Is there anything else that had to be moved or reworked?

Thanks for your time and hope to hear from you!

If you so choose you can send it to me at: [email protected]! My PM's are quite full and don't know how to save what I have which is another issue! HA! HA!

Thanks again,
Joe

[CarlG]

Originally Posted by Cape Codder

If you will I have a few questions. First, did yours come as a kit with everything supplied OR did you buy it piece by piece. As to the drive shaft did that have to be cut and machined? Not knowing any of this installation was a AA Bell Housing used or is all of that included with the F150? Is there anything else that had to be moved or reworked?

1) I bought a complete kit. I did have to furnish: Radius rods, Drive Shaft, & Torque tube to the builder. Everything else was furnished.

2) The Radius rods, Drive shaft & Torque tubes that I furnished had to be shortened and machined. They were returned to me complete and ready to install.

3) The kit used an AA Bell Housing, and that was furnished, assembled to the RTS transmission, complete with pedal and e-brake supports.

4) The only thing I had to "rework" was the wood floorboard. The position of the shift lever is moved aft about 2 inches. I also bought a transmission cover plate from Snyders (part # A-35245-X) which also had to be reworked to fit, but even that is not necessary.

[Don S]

Continuing with the installation of the Tremac transmission, I have had mine for several years now, love it , but am concerned that there is no rear tranny support . The original tranny had a rubber mount to the cross frame that gave some support and damping of noises ,and probably took some load off the u joint connection. Have any of the the latest Tremac installs been supported by a mount
fabricated to address the issue ? Any information ,drawings, etc could be very helpful.
Thanks , Don

[CarlG]

Originally Posted by Don S

Continuing with the installation of the Tremac transmission, I have had mine for several years now, love it , but am concerned that there is no rear tranny support . The original tranny had a rubber mount to the cross frame that gave some support and damping of noises ,and probably took some load off the u joint connection. Have any of the the latest Tremac installs been supported by a mount
fabricated to address the issue ? Any information ,drawings, etc could be very helpful.
Thanks , Don

The kit I received and installed DOES have a rear transmission support with a rubber insulator to the cross frame.