oldgriz":njn8gigm said:
Oh yea I also ordered the falcon 6 book.
Bmbm40 I have a 4 lug rear out of my 70 Maverick grabber that were going to use after we up grade it to disks and positrack.
Im stealing the 5 lug rear and spindles from the 72 comet GT were working on and upgrading the grabber drivetrain . there just isn't a lot of cool rim choices for 4 lug. My son wants to keep the falcon stock as much as possible . With upgrades for reliability and safety.
Seat belts and getting rid of the death spear steering column are on the list been doing a lot of research.
I'll post some pictures tomorrow.
Yeah, the death spear...
Three things
1. You can use the 3N71B 3 speed auto RX4/RX5 automatic gearbox,
Datsun 810 transmission
also used on the 1977-1979 Jatco 250 Granada's
and Holden RoadPacer.
Yes, heavy Ford and GM intermediates, with the gearbox from Mazda.....
The gearbox was from Mazda and Nissan, used on the Mazda designed, Ford assembled Ford Courier truck from 77-82. What many don't realise is that Mazda and Datsun/ Nissan built there own Ford C4 in Japan via Fords 25% ownership of Toyo Kogyo (Mazda), and imported it to the US for use in certain US models, and it was even more reliable than the C4. It was made by JATCO, a co-op company. Because it was a C4, it was reliable, but even more so as it had insanely well kitted out fully converted internals. Nissan Diesels (ld24/28's 810 Maximas, and other engines in Datsun pickups and the rotary and four cylinder Mazdas) were commonly fitted with it in overdrive 4N71B form.
Its 85% a fully rollerised 76-80 Ford Granada/ 74-82 Ford Courier JATCO , but with a huge OD unit added in between. Get one of these, and its one of the best gearboxes ever made. You found it on the 250 engined Granadas, they had a SBF bell housing, and mated to a 1982-1985 JATCO Overdrive, 0.68:1 if you got the right one, and a shorter Datsun/Nissan extension housing.
Behind a 5.0, a great gearbox.
The team the designed the AOD at Ford US had access to this transmission via there techncla link with Mazda.
As a result, the AOD is supperior potentially because of the Jatco 3N71B 3speed auto. Info I have is that the AOD is a reheated 1962-1966 XT-LOD (Extension Lock-Up Overdrive) design, shelved during the gluttony of the 60's and early 70's, then revisted exactly when Jatco started building the 3N71B and 4N71B.
The AOD difference being the integrated forth, not an add on. In terms of names, words, and Pearsons tech divisions, its layout , its techncially all different.
To this day, each is a supreme piece of stout drag racing equipment in RX-7's, Zeds, ...though it may just have a passing C4 resembalance, they are a straight interchange..anywhere a C4 goes, a 3N71B or 4N71B can . Even the overdive units were added to the 3N71B without anything but a valve body mod and a stator backout bearing.
One 5.0 with an od 3N71B
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/jatco-3n71-trans-219310.html
http://www.allfordmustangs.com/foru...5-mustang-unusual-engine-set-up-good-bad.html
Another 289 with a stock 3N71B without the early Nissan over drive added. Its a 100% factory 77-80 Granada auto gearbox.
They don't look the same as an AOD outside, don't have a bolt pattern the same asside from the SBF bell housing, share no interchanagle parts, but the hard dimsions and narrow ratios are the same.There is even a wide ratio set, aka 4W70R...Who was aping who?
Ford really should have bought the rights to it, as the owned a huge share in Mazda, and for a time, all automatic RX-7's, JDM Mazda Cosmos and 929's, even the GM Holden Permier based Mazda RoadPacer, had this 3N71B based gearbox, a Ford gearbox with a few Mazda inspirerd tweeks. The US AOD is internally like it.
2. Keeping things Nissan Satsun and at the same junkyard.....14 by 5.5 and 14 x 6 j 4.5" spacing wheeels, Datsun/ Nissan Maxima and the aftermarket 24, 26 and 28 Ounces.
Search "rwd Datsun Nissan Maxima 810/ 240, 260 and 280z wheels" Fairlady, 510, 720 ETC too.
They rust, but the wheels roll on and on...and they have a tight offset for their strut susepension, and are great on 60's.
Lastly
3. Your options are limitless from junkyard parts...if going manual trans, using the self adjusting quadrant and T5/5.0swaps are so popular, that type will be found.
The inside end of the cable hooks to the cable quadrant
Non standard or post 1996-2004 cables have an adjustment fulcrum.
On a Fox Mustang or Fairmont without brake booster, the hole is a little clearer.
This is the danger zone for adjustable cables.
On other cars, like old Falcons, they just need to use steel tube reinforcing
or an alloy fulcrum like MustangSteves' DIY stuff for X bodies at
http://www.mustangsteve.com/
Cables can come in other lengths too, just be aware that the standard FoMoCo one for 1980-1985 should be best.