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Transmission Crossmember.....Missing!!!
Well after crawling around under the Runner(69 Roadrunner 383, 4speed(Believed to be 18 spline). I started scratching my head...For years my father and now I have been driving without a tranny cross member!!!!!!!....Something that big overlooked for years(boy am I red in the face)...So what kind of damage can I expect to see if any and WHY would this be like this. Runner was a 727 car. That was very nicely converted...well except the cross member. Thoughts and opinions please.
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Wow... That's hard to believe.
I mean the radiators hoses wouldn't be lined up right. The motor mounts would have been taking a heck of a beating. The radiator fan would have eaten the shroud and possibly some of the radiator. The shifter wouldn't have been sitting right. The clutch pedal would have had a lot of odd movement. Drive shaft alignment would have been wrong with lots of odd vibrations. I am impressed that it mad it around the block more than once. |
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I could see if the mount was missing , but the whole crossmember?
I'm with Ed on this one, I can't see how you drove it without tearing up things. Even if it was just a mount, I'd expect lots of noise and eventual torn up parts. |
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A "missing" crossmember? Uh-uh.
There has to be something there to hold up the tail of the trans unless the motor is mounted solid and even then............. |
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no friggin' way . . . impossible.
you may be minus the rubber mount, but there has to be a crossmember in place. were this my car, i'd be doing some serious damage control inspection. |
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Unless someone has done a nifty job with fencing wire or something similar, it'll be there...
But I wouldn't take odds that it's an 18-spline box. |
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I would bet the rear of the engine is also mounted to something.
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It isn't, is it?
I thought that the engine mounting to the main crossmember (K-frame) and the mount on the tail housing of the gearbox was all there is. Trucks, of course, are different. Usually a mount at the front and one each side of the bellhousing... |
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how about a picture of this setup? I find it hard to believe also. You would think the motor would be sitting low in the rear...unless the driveshaft was shoved all the way into the tranny and was loosely holding things in place. Would be pretty hard on everything, specially the u-joints. I would think the motor would squirm around in the front mounts quite a bit under load.
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I was thinking the same thing....
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As I he hasn't responded back yet, I have to wonder if he was just pulling our legs?
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Pulling
This guy is probably pulling his own rat!
The pan would sit on the drag link making steering near impossible and NOTHING would line up or function . what a riot AARRACER |
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