[Feel the 'Pane]

Originally Posted by Old57

UPS came through today and delivered my Advance Adapters kit and a new flat transmission cover. I modified the other new cover to work with my shifters with the SM465, but now it'll need to be different so I'm starting over. I got the special oil on Wednesday. This evening, I shortened the output shaft according to the AA instructions, and installed the new tail shaft housing. All of the pictures I've seen of the adapter housing, it was aluminum. I was pleasantly surprised to get it and it was heavy cast iron. Earlier in the week, I cleaned and painted the transmission. I might get a chance to do the swap this weekend...

FYI : if AA sent you all cap screws, make sure they're all SAE & not metric (I got a mixed bag of both in my kit), & suggest that you buy or make studs in place of the bolts that connect the T-case to the trans. Not only did my cap screws come loose (while I was driving!), I had to make a special tool to tighten the cap screws, which probably contributed to them coming loose in the 1st place.

By the time I smelled the oil leak - I lost enough trans fluid to burn both main brgs & burn 3rd gear...

I bought a 2 ft piece of B-7 boiler allthread for the studs and grade 8 lock washers and nuts and haven't had any problems since.

FtP