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Originally Posted by OrrieG
You would be surprised how much abuse those old cast iron three speeds will take. I abused the heck out of them in the 60's in a 60 and 57 Chevy. Never blew up a trans, the universal joints were the weak link in my set ups to save the trans and rearends. Always carried a spare!
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I know how much they will take as I have blown a lot of them with out poping the clutch. My 55 cameo with a 58 370 pontiac
would destroy the stock 3 speed just letting out the clutch easy and standing on the gas. You can't treat them to rough with a 350 as they
have a lot more tourqe then a 265-283. That said I did run a 50 pickup
3 speed in my 41 chevy coupe with a built 265 (272) with good results.
Never had trouble with u joints in the cameo but did crack the diff housing.
Went to a 4 speed bw and cured the trans problems.