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Re: my problem as Kevin mentioned Posted by DougM [Email] (#211) [Profile/Gallery] (more from DougM) on Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:57:27 In Reply to: Re: and a few more.............., Dan [Profile/Gallery] , Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:24:41 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I had a 74EMS parts car(rotted body) and I bought a 73E for its rot free body. 74 was the last year before the transmissions, drives, hubs, and brakes were changed...or so I thought. I dumped the engine and drivetrain from the 74 into the 73, and also used the spindles and axles from the 74. When I took the car for a ride, at about 5mph the noise and shaking began. I was stumped for weeks?!?!?!! I pulled everything apart numerous times...bearings were OK, axle lengths were identical to the 73's... even the A-arms were identical....when the car was jacked up and the engine running in gear, the engine moved violently side to side. The drives seemed to be bottoming in the inner drivers. I refused to believe the problem was transmission related...it worked fine for 14 years that I had owned the car...the 74 that is, and there was no logical reason it shouldn't have worked in the 73's body. I finally crawled underneath and took some measurements of the 74's trans....it was wider and beefier than the 73's transmission in the differential section...wider by an inch or two, I don't recall exactly. The measurements backed up my theory on the drives bottoming out, but why??? 73's and 74's were supposed to be identical.
The only conclusion I could make of it was that the BODIES were different to accomodate a wider tranny in the 74...all the other parts matched up. Maybe my 74 had the A-arms moved outward an inch on each side of the car to allow for the wider trans. Anyway, enough of my stumper...the problem was solved by sticking the 73 trans in the car, and all is well.
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