Jonk67
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Passed another milestone for me, after aggravating Shaun at SorT for weeks with questions (thanks Shaun :thu) I finally ordered my DS from him and it came the next week! I put it on the scale with Ujoints but w/o tailshaft and it was 9.2lbs. I'm going to weigh the stock steel one out of curiosity. With a new AOD and swapped in 9" my DS length ended up 50.5"
Can't say I'm good at DS or Ujoint install, well installing the tailshaft end at least. Had the hardest time getting it to fit into the tailshaft and not hook the clip seat, took a lot of palm slaps and a piece of wood
then when I put one of the caps on 1/3 of the pins fell (unaware) :censored in and it would not seat. Had to tap it back out far enough to get a grip on the cap and found the reason. After a half hour install on one cap I had the DS in in 15 min.
That's a big hurdle cleared (both time and $) to give me a push to get more of the little stuff done for first start like ign. wires, AOD linkage adjustment, reassembly of dash.
Jon
Can't say I'm good at DS or Ujoint install, well installing the tailshaft end at least. Had the hardest time getting it to fit into the tailshaft and not hook the clip seat, took a lot of palm slaps and a piece of wood
then when I put one of the caps on 1/3 of the pins fell (unaware) :censored in and it would not seat. Had to tap it back out far enough to get a grip on the cap and found the reason. After a half hour install on one cap I had the DS in in 15 min.
That's a big hurdle cleared (both time and $) to give me a push to get more of the little stuff done for first start like ign. wires, AOD linkage adjustment, reassembly of dash.
Jon
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