Homealone's 62 Ford Country Sedan Build Up

[Z06killinsbf]

Looks good man! You'll get that trans figured out easy enough. I'd check into a Mr Gasket shift boot and see if the chrome surround will fit the fox boot. If not a nice chunk of aluminum cut out to fit would look good

[homealone]

We'll see. Experiencing the fallout of the T-5 swap.

Trans hangs lower, which required the crossmember to be modified which interfered with the exhaust. Not to mention the addition of the parking brake stuff is sandwiched in the middle of it all.

Some tweaking to required.

[Hicompression]

Great job! You are on track to making the GS on Saturday...

[homealone]

After that I just buttoned a few more things up. Hooked up the clutch cable, installed the starter, and hooked up and adjusted the parking brake cables.






And the last thing I did before I put the tools away was try out a shifter boot. I wanted to use a stock one but the lower T-5 shifter was too high so I think I am going to use a Foxbody boot and I'll fab up a bezel for it.

[homealone]

I wanted to retain a stock look so I modified a 65/66 Mustang 3spd shifter to work with the T-5. I need to stop cutting these up, they are getting hard to find.


Cut the ends of the 3spd and T-5 shifter, weld it up, give it a little paint and bolt it on.










1st gear.




Neutral



3rd gear.... and so on.

[homealone]

One last time, flywheel and clutch set installed.






Bolt up the bell housing.




And install the transmission, again.

[homealone]

Day two, T-5 install.

I had a few hours today so I tackled what I could.

All said and done, the T-5 was pulled and reinstalled 3 times to get everything fitted and fabricated. It would have been 2 but I found out the hard way that the power steering ram, which I had to rebuild, won't come out with the bell housing in place.


Here is where I left off, T-5 in place, need to pull it.




The PS Ram was leaking so it got new seals and hoses.






New seals and installed.








Next, cut a hole in my new floor.








And the shifter in position.

[Hicompression]

Sweet! Row, Row, Row your BOAT...

[homealone]

Well the weather finally let up and I had a couple hours this afternoon so lets continue.

Out with the old, in with the new. The poor little AOD didn't last long in a 4200# wagon so I pulled it today.

Hopefully the rain will hold out tomorrow and I can finish up.

On the ground




In the air. lol




Last look at the AOD




I must be getting old. it took me nearly an hour to pull the driveshaft, exhaust, starter, crossmember, wiring , linkage, and transmission.






And the T-5 mocked up. Before it got dark, I was able to modify the crossmember and add the linkage for the parking brake.

[Hicompression]

You should see me when I have real tools. I'm Dangerous.

...or beer.

[homealone]

You make this stuff look easy.

You should see me when I have real tools. I'm Dangerous.

[slowbrick2]

You make this stuff look easy.

[homealone]

Whose stinkin' garage is that?...nice!

Super Secret Undisclosed Location

Sap free!

I'm glad somebody caught that.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Sap free!

[Hicompression]

Or Halibrand wheels. I have a set of these I picked up for another project that never took off. I borrowed these from cool cat's cougar. He wasn't using them. lol

Whose stinkin' garage is that?...nice!