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Re: [Tigers] Toploader overdrive

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Subject: Re: [Tigers] Toploader overdrive
From: fsimer@gac.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:11:48 -0600
I have a SROD with shifter in Minneapolis if anyone wants it - $100
FOB my shop Minneapolis 55405  (I have never run it so no idea of its
overall condition) I went with a mini GN QC rear instead of
transmission changes

Frank Simer
Gustavus Adolphus College








Quoting "Smit, Theo" <Theo.Smit@dynastream.com>:

> During the mid-70's Ford made an aluminum-case version of the toploader
> dubbed the Single-Rail Overdrive. This was a version where the shift
> linkage for the 3/4 shift ring was reversed, and then they reworked the
> countershaft (and the gear corresponding to 3rd) to make the 3rd gear
> position an overdrive ratio. This was definitely a 'wide' ratio gearbox
> by anyone's definition, and gives a significant hole between 2nd and
> "3rd" (now the 1:1 direct drive). I think John Crawley ran one of these
> in his Tiger for a while.
>
> Theo
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