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And now a word from my transmission :

I NEED A REBUILD! I dropped it off at a shop some weeks back , only to discover recently that the business had changed hands - and the new owner was not informed about my transmission . We got that straightened out , and though he doesn't usually work on 700R4's he agreed to do some minor stuff . I got a call early this morning ... he found what he considered excessive amounts of metal "dust" in the oil , and declined to do the mods I wanted , he recommended a full rebuild . Fortunately there's a garage here in town that has lots of experience with these and he agreed to build this one for me . And at a very agreeable price too . So this morning I picked it up from the first guy (and paid him for the shift kit he ordered in for me , with a few bucks added for his time) and dropped it off at the other shop . An update on the motor - I had the bottom end buttoned up , but was unsure if I had the right bolt for my new high flow oil pump . So I pulled the pan back off and checked again , and decided that I didn't have enough thread engagement . I'm now awaiting the arrival of a stud kit that will engage all the threads in the bearing cap the pump mounts on . As soon as that is taken care of I'll be bolting the heads on and getting the valves adjusted . I sure hope the light I'm seeing at the end of the tunnel isn't a train !

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Snag
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A word of warning. If you have a high flow or high volume oil pump you may need a larger sump pan so that you do not get a drop in oil pressure when running at higher RPM or when you rev up the motor. Its something I ran across in doing some research on putting my dad's old Bronco on the road again. I recall he had been fighting low oil pressure after his last rebuild. It has the typical Ford crap idiot gages from that era, so he put in a direct pressure gage below the dash, and confirmed it. I recall him saying he had put a high volume oil pump in it, and it doing some Internet sleuthing I ran across a few reference to this as a problem. I don't recall al the details, but it might be a worth a bit of Internet sleuthing of your own.

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Bob La Londe

That's something I hadn't considered ... I'm not planning on this motor seeing much high RPM operation . But I will be watching that oil pressure gauge if I do wind it up ! I'm not sure what to expect , this motor always ran about 45 PSI except at idle it was around 40 .

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Snag

Depending on the year and if you are running the stock Ford gage cluster that may have been an idiot gage. A certain range for Ford years didn't actually show actual oil pressure. They just showed a good appearing range unless it actually had a serious oil pressure problem. They were no better than idiot lights.

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Bob La Londe

That is virtually every Ford olil pressure guage since at leat the late '80s Grounf the sensor wire and they jump to roughk=ly half scale (and not ONLY Ford - although I believe they were the first to pull the stunt.)

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Clare Snyder

Early 80s. The Bronco was an 82. I don't know about my 76 F150 and 78 F250 Ford pickups. I never checked.

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Bob La Londe

Why would I have Ford cluster in my 1986 GMC pickup ?

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Snag

Depending on the year and if you are running the stock Ford gage cluster that may have been an idiot gage. A certain range for Ford years didn't actually show actual oil pressure. They just showed a good appearing range unless it actually had a serious oil pressure problem. They were no better than idiot lights.

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On my '91 there is a 200 ohm resistor in the gauge that fakes a good pressure reading as long as the pressure SWITCH is closed. Supposedly a Diesel engine resistive pressure sender can make the gauge meter swing, but the scale is not graduated.

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Jim Wilkins

Well, there is that.

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Bob La Londe

GMC does the same thing on many models - do the "grounf test" to know for sure. If it is a "real" guage grounding will show fulkl scale

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Clare Snyder

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