T Bird C5 swap but driveshaft wont fit

Reply #30 – May 03, 2009, 02:59:27 PM

Bill E. Bob:

Is there a tag on the tranny? According to Mitchell OnDemand the C5 came in two flavours. Code W for F-150, and code C for all other applications. I'm guessing the F-150 is longer, and you've got an F-150 tranny.

I dunno what that part is you show in the pic. I've got a cutaway diagram of the tranny (shown below) and the only thing it shows is the speedo drive gear, which is part of the output shaft

*EDIT* I've just found out what that part is. It's a bushing, the driveshaft slides through it into the tranny. I should've known that, a friend had one go bad on him and wear into the driveshaft...

Here is the problem

Reply #31 – May 03, 2009, 06:22:37 PM

No tag on the transmission. Previous owner bought a "rebuilt" trans

Narrowed it down to the slip yoke not going all the way in. Apparently it was left stuck in the 2 inches and the rest of the 4inch insertion depth rusted - which is why it made me think it was going all the way in like it used to. (only 2 inches of shiny)

Anyway, tried to find some foriegn object laying in the seal area that was blocking the yoke, but found out the yoke hits up against the bushing and/or the housing because the output shaft does is not aligned with the housing.

I guess a py "rebuild" job.

Tried to shove it around to force it, but can't budge the output shaft.

Now have to figure the cost of another transmission over what I could get for a 84 Tbird 35k miles- It has the 3.8L

T Bird C5 swap but driveshaft wont fit

Reply #32 – May 03, 2009, 08:07:11 PM

glad to see you figured it out.good luck getting it all worked out.