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Old 05-01-2016, 04:33 PM
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clark 285v & 280 vo questions

My 78 F 600 has a Clark 285 v transmission (according to the door tag). The ford service manual says that a 280 vo is an overdrive transmission. Will just a few internal parts swap convert my 285 to overdrive or would it be a total change of guts?
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It would be the entire gear set. I think all the ratios are different one box to the other. I would simply swap the entire transmission.
 
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