Re: Old girl beggin for fourth gear  
Re: Re: Old girl beggin for fourth gear -- Rob Riffle Post Reply Top of thread Maverick Message Board
Posted by: Doc Niver ®
2001/09/17, 21:17:32

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:I am curious of how much difficulty u ran into when installing the AOD. I mean there are some issues I aint to sure about. Are u running dual exhaust? Was there a a need to change the flywheel, did the starter work ok, bla bla bla. ?/ Lemme know what diffs u had when u get a minute!

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be I used a trans , converter and flywheel out of a 81 Thunder Bird. The 302 came out of my sons 77 mavrick the drive shaft is the didn't have to be modifyed. I had to fab a trans mount because the boss sits about 2" back farther than the C4 used the same starter.
I found a aftermarket trans mount and copyed it.
The biggest problem I had was I had to make the shifer linkage and kick down linkage work because I didn't want to cut a hole in the floor of the grabber but I got lucky and had a threaded boss on the side of the bell housing.
A c4 shifts backwards from a AOD.
If you decide to do this(MAKE SURE THAT AS THE THROTTLE IS OPEN THAT YOU HAVE PRESSURE ON THROTTLE VALVE OF THE TRANS{KICK DOWN LEVER ON THE C4} ) you can burn an aod up on jack stands if it's not adjusted properly or in 6 mile as a friend found out.
The whole job took about a saturday.
One more thing, if you have a/c trim the drain under the car because the bellhouing sets up against it and seals it.



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