If you didn't drop the pan you could have taken both lines off and used a hose in a 5 gallon bucket on the output side of the line from the trans .Leave the car in park and start the car as you add fluid until the new fluid comes out then shut the car off and reconnect the lines refill the transmission to mark on the dipstick .
Excellent video ! I’ve got to change my linkage in my 79 f150 c6 due to it having the wrong arm with no slots for the neutral safety switch thanks for posting this as it’s tough to find any info on just the arm changeout
That lever was cut for a reason . Due to cable operation that part of stock lever will interfere . Next issue ,slide kickdown shaft in at the same time as shift sleeve , and when bolting valve body on reach up with your finger and line up end of kickdown lever with spring pin piston , you wont be able to see it but there is a 5/16 studded nut that it has to be one side of .
I put a stock lever back on. No interference. I should mention that the truck came with a C6 from the factory. The aftermarket lever was probably installed by TCI performance who rebuilt it. A lot of those C6 are sold for some hot rod applications where floor shifters are used. In that case the aftermarket lever makes sense. In my case I just put back what was originally installed in the truck anyways. Now I am also running the stock neutral safety switch which was deleted because it isn't compatible with the aftermarket lever. Now it works just as it was designed by Ford.
So I dropped the pan to replace a leaking pan gasket, I noticed the bebt rod on the right inside that is connected to the linkage was dropped down into the pan , haven't had any shifting issues,but was wondering if it's actually supposed to be up in the hole? Because I put it in and when I tested the shifting it dropped back down
If I understand correctly, that rod going to the rear of transmission is the one engaging and disangaging the parking claw. If that is not connected your transmission never fully gets put into park. Hard say what is going on without looking at it.
@@HeikosGarage exactly the same transmission as in the video didn't even know it was dropped in the pan until I removed the pan but still continues to work fine ,it's actually on a swamp buggy so not too worried about the parking to much lol thanks for responding 👍
unfortunately yes. the linkage is underneath the valve body but it is really not to difficult. take the pan off, take the valve body off (make sure you remember which bolt goes where and rest is pretty simple.
actually no yo wont need to pull the pan off, just disconnect the linkage and put pull the old o-ring off and put the new one in and if the kickdown pushes in, I learned to use a dental pick of sorts to pull the kickdown back out then put the new ring in place and connect the linkages and done. you can also use the pick to pull the o-ring since its probably dried and cracked.
