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Re: [Tigers] Toploader overdrive

To: fsimer@gac.edu
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Toploader overdrive
From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:48:49 -0800
Ok, Frank, you now have my interest, lol...What is a "mini GN QC rear"? 
I assume the QC is for quick change, but what is it and what kind of 
specs does it nave..

mayf
fsimer@gac.edu wrote:

>I have a SROD with shifter in Minneapolis if anyone wants it - $100
>FOB my shop Minneapolis 55405  (I have never run it so no idea of its
>overall condition) I went with a mini GN QC rear instead of
>transmission changes
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>Frank Simer
>Gustavus Adolphus College
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>Quoting "Smit, Theo" <Theo.Smit@dynastream.com>:
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>>During the mid-70's Ford made an aluminum-case version of the toploader
>>dubbed the Single-Rail Overdrive. This was a version where the shift
>>linkage for the 3/4 shift ring was reversed, and then they reworked the
>>countershaft (and the gear corresponding to 3rd) to make the 3rd gear
>>position an overdrive ratio. This was definitely a 'wide' ratio gearbox
>>by anyone's definition, and gives a significant hole between 2nd and
>>"3rd" (now the 1:1 direct drive). I think John Crawley ran one of these
>>in his Tiger for a while.
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>>Theo
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