For all who were at Erics last weekend...

i made it home!!!

just letting everyone know who was erics that i did make it home. the trans is done. it locked up on 71 about 3 miles south of the 271-71 interchange. when it failed, it slammed into 4th, and stayed there. shifter felt as if in neutral, and i all i had was 1:1 all the way home. taking off from a stop was interesting!

anyways, i want to thank all the great folks from NATO who helped me put it back together onsite when the sleeve failed, i dont think i would have made it this far. thanks you eris, mike, pete, everyone!

also, a huge thank you to ERIC for his wonderful hospitality, great party man!!!!!

-J0N

BTW...i need a T5. FAST. PM me...

-J

Thanks for coming. Hope to see you all again next year. Had a GREAT time with you all. Sorry to hear you had trouble on the way home, but atleast you made it there. I am on the look out for a trans for you. Already spotted one and waiting to hear back from the guy. I will let you know what he says.

Many thanks to Eric and his family for a great day. It was good to see everyone. May the great spud gun live on.

Glad you got it home Jon. I know you will have it back on the road soon. Good to see you again

thanks guys.

eric, let me know that would be great!

-J0N

send Kunar a msg. He has a spare T-5 listed in his Car for sale ad. Maybe you can convince him to sell it separate. Still haven't heard back from the guy I sent a Msg.

kunar wants to keep it until the car sells. i need help convincing!

-J0N

so, i dug a trans out of my shed. i have what i was told was an early 80's 5.0 stang trans. i have no idea what it is, or if i even got the right numbers off of it. i was able to find 3 part numbers, no 'tag' per-say, these are cast into the casing in various places.

13-52-066-908
13-52-065-904
13-51-097-901

this was stamped into the case
DH133087

its a 10 spline input, 6 and 1/2 inches long input shaft, case length is roughly 25".

if this is a 5.0 T5, can i just swap the input shafts from my old box and go?

i found reference to a 1352-065 as being from an 84 5.0 mustang, having a 2.95 1st, and an 0.63 OD. is this what i have here? would that be a good gearset for a stone stock 86 TC?

-J0N

I don't know about swapping input shafts, but Rapido supposedly make a bushing that will allow you to run a V8 T5 on a 2.3 without modification.

Great time!!! Thanks Eric

this was stamped into the case
DH133087

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i found reference to a 1352-065 as being from an 84 5.0 mustang, having a 2.95 1st, and an 0.63 OD. is this what i have here? would that be a good gearset for a stone stock 86 TC?

-J0N

No, most will want no part of swapping a higher gear ratio trans into a 4cyl, there's a reason 4cyl trans have approx 4:1 1st gear ratio(lack of torque)...

The numbers are just casting/part no of what they are on, without the tag they don't mean much...

The DH133087 is going to be the saving grace here, it's a portion of orig vehicles VIN..

Sooo D is 1984 & H is the Lorain assembly plant... Now AFAIK Mustangs were't built at Lorain(Pete will know), so it's likely a non-World Class T-Bird trans(meaning no parts swap with the later WC versions)... You can check ratio by putting it into first and counting number of turns input shaft requires to turn output one time... A 4cyl trans will be around four while a 5.0 trans will be three...

BTW other gaskets and some bearings, no parts swap from a 5.0 to 4cyl trans, even case is different do to the machining required to fit the larger 4cyl input gear into the case...


Tom