the 84-86 bronco thread got me to thinking...
Last time I went out the the junk yard a looked through the ford trucks area and found plenty of newer explorers and f-150's with manual tranny's that people just rolled over then junked...
How hard would it be to put one of these behind a 5.0 in one of our beloved birds or cats?
It all depaends on if the truck was 4 wheel drive or not. If it was a two wheel dirve truck, it would probably be easier. You would have to change a bunch of stuff on a 4 wheel drive tranny to make it work (output shafts comes to mind for one probably, somebody woudl knwo better though...). The M5 tranny you are talking about has a deep first in it as well if I rember correctly. I really dont know what all woudl be involved in this, but I would say its safe to say just find a totaled GT witha 5 spd and make it easier for yourself :D HTH, somebody probably knwos more than me and can speak better of this....
Frank M.
there aren't many mustangs in the yards in my area... Generally not many foxes anymore either.
while the hydro throwout bearing would allow simple adaption of the TC hydro clutch pedals, i think the shifter would be quite a bit too far forward to work in this platform.
Agreed. ft lb per ft lb, I don't think it will handle as much torque as a WC T5 will. But if your engine is a stock 5.0, it should be ok. But again, the shifter will be too far forward, and tall. The stock shifter is pretty long to boot, so you'd be "Rat Fink" shifting through the sunroof, lol.
i have one of those transmissions sitting around, by looking at it and a t-5 the shifter would probly be in the heater box :hick: