Newb project Pole Dancer

[67XR7]

Originally Posted by efs69

I rebuilt a 350 engine for it but later a friend offered up his old 383. I ran across an up and coming transmission vendor selling TKO 5 Speeds at the Pomona Swap Meet. Jeff and I spoke for a while and a deal was done for a TKO 500.

I also swapped out the rear for a 69 Nova posi I found in the Recycler. Looked at some information about brake swaps and put rear discs in from a Caddy.

At the same time I was doing the interior which was nothing special except for adding some vintage air to get rid of the old bulky AC unit. Some new carpet, panels, paint and cheap racing seats and I called it good.

Care to share the info of this "up and coming" tranny guy? thanks!

[efs69]

Originally Posted by 67XR7

Care to share the info of this "up and coming" tranny guy? thanks!

I did the TKO switch a few years back. The TKO was from Classic Chevy 5 Speed when they were just starting out and selling out of Swap Meets. i meth them in Pomona.

[Ron in SoCal]

Originally Posted by efs69

i meth them in Pomona.

I hear Pomona's good for that.

(kidding Bro!)

[efs69]

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Originally Posted by efs69


i meth them in Pomona.

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

I hear Pomona's good for that.

(kidding Bro!)

oops!!! lol but I think you're right!!

[WSSix]

Glad the sway bar mishap didn't cause any serious damage. Congrats on the fun weekend!

[GregWeld]

Well that's pretty wild and wooly stuff!! Nothing good comes from parts falling off cars!

I think the part I like the best about auto sports is the peoples willingness to help everybody including the guy that might beat them. It's just a great group of people.

Glad it worked out for you.

[Chad-1stGen]

Efrain,

Glad you made it home okay! I didn't want to say to much in my thread but since you shared the carnage here I just wanted to say I have huge respect for you getting that car back on the track Tuesday! I'm impressed that not only were you still eager to have it beat on but even more that you came prepared with enough spares to rebuild your swaybar.

Hope to meet up with you at a track soon!

Oh and having been on the receiving end of a similar offer to help me get my car home recently it is humbling and amazing what a great group of folks there are in the car world.

EDIT: one more thing. Great pic in post 113!!

[efs69]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Well that's pretty wild and wooly stuff!! Nothing good comes from parts falling off cars!

That is for sure!,,

I think the part I like the best about auto sports is the peoples willingness to help everybody including the guy that might beat them. It's just a great group of people.

Glad it worked out for you.

I agree that was really cool.

[efs69]

Originally Posted by WSSix

Glad the sway bar mishap didn't cause any serious damage. Congrats on the fun weekend!

Thanks. More damage revealed after the tear down this weekend...

[efs69]

Saturday morning...the little woman has a bunch of honey does lined up for me so I had to get those out of the way before I jumped back in on the car. So with those out of the way and half the day gone I was back under the car.

I forgot to mention that before I put the slave in the car I decided to try to pre bled it. I used a wood clamp to keep the bearing from being pushed off and connected it to the quick release. I pumped up the pedal, using a rod to keep it down and bled it out. Not sure if this would work but I had a hard time bleeding the other when I first put it in.

After a while and several verbal assaults the trans was in. Now all I had to do was get it tighted down. mount the cross member shifter, fill with fluid, driveshaft exhaust....blah, blah blah

It is now Saturday night and all is together ready for shake down and break in on Sunday.