Swap to 4 spd

[fordman]

you will have to cut your floor out in the hump area and install a removeable one. i would get the removable one before you do any cutting that way you will know where to cut it at.

[kid]

Once it gets warm out, I am going to swap to a 4 spd. What do I need to all get from the juckyard? Support, some bracket thing? How hard is it gonna be, need to cut floor?

Skip looking for years and look at this.

http://high-impact.net/transmission_and ... sFordTruck

[cghstrojan08]

Looks good but i am looking for the granny gear though. I have a trailer and that would be better to pull things with. So, I need the bell housing, tranny, floor cover, driveshaft, cross member(just to be safe), and thats I guess. Do I need clutch linkage stuff?

[kid]

i have a NP 435 with Granny and 4.10s. With 3000 on the truck my 360 still had no need for granny.

The bell housing and Clutch linkage and throwout fork are all the same. In the old days the tranny was made to fit the Ford not the Ford to fit the tranny.

Even the cross member is the same it just might need to move forward to fit a different length tail shaft.

[kid]

http://fordification.com/transmissions-manual.htm

From these pics it doesn't look like you need to move the crossmember either.

What are your rear end gears?

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetai ... toview=sku for a clutch and
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... mot_widget for gears

And you don't need granny

[ICEMAN6166]

And you don't need granny

you may not but up here we certainly do and use it a lot.i would not be wanting a truck without it.

[kid]

I have driven in places as bad as Alaska oh it was Alaska without it and without 4 wheel drive and across soft sand and hard highways. I still don't need granny unless I need to walk along side the truck as it idles across a field during a Hay loading.

[ICEMAN6166]

OK.
that sounds all real nice and wonderful but i think i will still keep granny.she has not hurt me in all the years we have been together and its also kind of cool to idle up hills in 1st, especially the icy ones when no one else seems to be able to do it.
how often you or i use it is not a big deal, i just would rather have it than not.
i have been thru plenty of nasty places in a 2wd automatic many times and made it too.

[mjhaltom]

I just laid the new hump cover down in the groove that is already in the floor and drilled holes for the bolts. Then I removed the cover and used a marker to trace out a pattern about half an inch inside the new holes. Then I used a cut off wheel to cut out the floor. No sweat. Took about 20 minutes.

[kid]

Oh and I forgot to say I don't touch Hay anymore.

[ICEMAN6166]

[kid]

Reference to my statement in post 22 About walking alongside of the truck in granny.

[fordman]

I just laid the new hump cover down in the groove that is already in the floor and drilled holes for the bolts. Then I removed the cover and used a marker to trace out a pattern about half an inch inside the new holes. Then I used a cut off wheel to cut out the floor. No sweat. Took about 20 minutes.

thats a good idea you had there do you have your u nuts to use to put the bolts through or are you going to use bolts and nuts to hold it down.

[mjhaltom]

I was thinking of using bolts and nuts.

[ICEMAN6166]

Reference to my statement in post 22 About walking alongside of the truck in granny.