NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/autos/tech/18267

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Subject: TH350 vs. TH400
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From: [e-mail] (Dave Williams)
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:01:00 GMT
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-> TH350, but I thought maybe the TH400 would be a better idea for the
-> performance engine I now had. However, I ended up just rebuilding and
-> keeping the TH350 for the following reasons:

.....  the T400 uses a different spline on the tailshaft splines

.....  the T400 is a different length, requiring a shortened or
       lengthened (depending on version) driveshaft, and relocating
       the crossmember, and of course the rubber mount is different
       too

.....  rod type column shift linkage will work OK, but the cable type
       shifters won't

.....  kickdown actuation is different (electric vs mechanical)

 Fortunately, the speedometer cable fit.  It's about the ONLY goddamned
thing that'll bolt straight up.  Swapping the T350 for a T400 isn't that
big a deal when you know what you're getting into, but I'd been assured
by "experts" that it would drop right in.  A one-day job turned into
over a week of parts scrounging, since I had to send the driveshaft out
of town to be modified, and I paid a GOOOOOOOOD price for the wierdo
T400 yoke.  You know GOOOOOOOOOD price?   That's when nobody else in
town has one, and you need it *now*.