Phaeton 4-speed on BringATrailer dot com

The transmission is an F150 Termec 4-spd with overdrive out of an 84-87 Ford F150 2-wheel drive truck.
 
I was wondering how they connected the enclosed driveline to the back of the transmission and how they got it the right length for the drive line to transmission.
 
Gold Digger said:
I was wondering how they connected the enclosed driveline to the back of the transmission and how they got it the right length for the drive line to transmission.
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It's not hard
AA bellhousing (gain 1/2 of length so no no need to cut crossmember), remove tail housing of trans and replace with aprox 1" thick aluminum plate that becomes an adapter to mate the clamshell housing to the trans, shorten and spline the trans output shaft to mach the U-joint, shorten the drive shaft,torque tube and radius rods :cool:
 
The only 4-speed the early Rangers used was a Toyo Kogyo TK4 made by Mazda. It's more rare now than the T170 RTS TOD that used to be a common switch for all the early Fords. There used to be a half dozen guys that set them up for torque tube drive but not so much any more. Tremec in Mexico doesn't support them for hard parts anymore but a person can get bearings & gaskets. They are a bit longer than their Ford counterparts so the shift tower is farther back but they work OK for non-performance gearboxes. Production stopped in 1985 so parts are slowly drying up.
 
How old were those tires,in 2019 I replaced a 1961 set of Sears Allstate tires ,still had good tread but had cracked sidewalls , way to old. I got five Lucas tires $100 each with tubes and rim strips for a total of $605. The same tires six years later are $140 each.
 
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