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Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #30 on: April 10 2016, 10:31:57 PM »
Jason that's typical unless you remove the bumper I always come in from the side.
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« Reply #31 on: April 10 2016, 11:06:29 PM »
Dan and I have an electric overhead hoist on an I beam in the shop. Makes life easy.
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« Reply #32 on: April 11 2016, 11:36:09 AM »
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #33 on: April 11 2016, 12:22:02 PM »
Dan and I have an electric overhead hoist on an I beam in the shop. Makes life easy.

Well...  I've got drag race weather and you've got snow
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #34 on: April 11 2016, 10:47:29 PM »
Not much to report. Managed to pressure wash, blast and paint the tranny crossmember. 
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #35 on: April 12 2016, 12:22:31 PM »
I know the guy on the right!!! That's some good looking stuff Jason! Rich with a stash? ???

I used to have the handle bars.



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That little activity over the Christmas holidays with UPS, they required a much more manicured look.

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Looks like good progress Jason. Keep up the good work.
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« Reply #36 on: April 12 2016, 09:39:30 PM »
Handle bars- that the same as love handles? Then we gots those.
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #37 on: April 12 2016, 10:16:11 PM »
I like to think of it as a flavor saver.
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #38 on: April 13 2016, 09:54:29 PM »
Got a little bit done this evening. Hooked my pressure washer to the hot water heater, soaked the engine bay with some dawn soap and sprayed away.  Not too bad but now I'll have to get in there with my hands.  Dried out all the electrical connectors with compressed air and sprayed liberally with Deoxit. 


I still need an S cover actuator or just the small clamp.  I can position and weld in ne of the actuators that I already have.  If it gets down to just that, I may just fab up a clamp and then weld on the actuator.  Going to call Mike at full throttle again tomorrow.  Placed the order with him on Feb 9th and of course I've already paid. 
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« Reply #39 on: April 13 2016, 09:59:41 PM »
We were moving some cash around Iraq that night. Under that flag is a little over 100 million dollars in cash, all in potatoe sacks.  By the way, I've had that same haircut since since 86'
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #40 on: April 16 2016, 07:23:30 AM »
Jason...just make sure the rod has an absolutely straight pull to the wastegate arm.
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #41 on: April 16 2016, 09:29:02 PM »
Had a little set back today.  Getting everything ready to stab the engine and tranny and go to install the TC and it doesn't fully seat. i mate the tranny to the block and have some interference.  Grab a stock D5 and it slides in. Mount the tranny and the stock converter spins freely, no interference with the flex plate. Start taking some measurements and the stock TC seats 1 1/8 inch from the tranny bell housing to the bolt mounting surface. Jakes TC only seats at 1 inch.


Email Jake, call Jake. His ideas do not make any difference. His TC still won't seat any further into the tranny.  Something is bottoming and won't allow the TC to seat fully. 


Shut the lights off and close the barn up.


Here's jakes converter and one of a stock D5
« Last Edit: April 17 2016, 08:38:58 AM by good2win22 »
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #42 on: April 16 2016, 09:44:34 PM »
I'm not sure what we are measuring there but I would set the new converter and look inside. Count the splines in there. You need it to have 27 splines but I bet it has 30 splines. Just a hunch.

Let us know.

I guess we should have stabbed it on there while we were up there.
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #43 on: April 16 2016, 10:47:20 PM »
1 1/8" is correct...when installed and bolted up, there is normally about 1/8"-3/16" clearance between lugs and the flexplate as I recall.

It should click three times as it slides into the transmission-unless I am more senile that I admit to.

Did you measure/compare the nose lengths?

Also, sit the converter on a table on the pads...lay a straight edge across the nose and measure between the table and the straight edge.  Do the same for the D5 and compare the two measurements
« Last Edit: April 16 2016, 11:11:21 PM by Steve Wood »
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Re: Barn motor and tranny swap
« Reply #44 on: April 17 2016, 06:41:03 AM »
Steve...Jason called me as I was rolling into the track yesterday. I said the same thing...make sure it clicks in 3 times. I talked to him last nite and he says it appears as if the input shaft is bottoming on something and wont seat in. My recommendation was to take the convertor and trans back to Jake.
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