Howdy Ford Fans,

I am putting together a thread on my new website going thru a ol C-6 tranny,

So far just have the tear down pictured,

www.backwoodsgoopinfo.com/goopBB • View topic - C-6

 

That's a nice start. I have gotten that far myself. I would say you have a lot more experience than I do though. I am looking forward to the conclusion to the thread. Also, thanks for the trouble of posting. I am going to try to get mine back together over the next few days. Thanks again.

 

Your post on your website looks good, but the only thing I can suggest is to somehow make it rookie-proof.

Lots of the stuff you have on your website doesn't transition well enough for me to be able to follow it all that well, as well as the descriptions don't really match the pictures.

As a positive suggestion, I would look into circling things on the pictures with descriptions to show what you're talking about. One example is one of the first few pictures shows how you back off or loosen one of the nuts on the transmission shifter arm I believe. If you were to circle which nut to back off in the picture (because your description isn't clear), it would help the overall clarity of your message.

Just a few suggestions from me after reading through it. I wanted to constructively criticise it so you understand it from some one else's perspective.

Again, please take what I say with a grain of salt because I'm only trying to help.

Otherwise, I think you've got a brilliant grasp on C6 transmissions, and I too am looking forward to reading more on your posts because I recently purchased a C6 that needs a rebuild.

Great work so far

 

so is there anyway to lock the transmisson into park ? because I'm getting sick of the truck rolling down the drive after I shut the door and forget to double check it. my neighbors thankyou

 

Yep a lot of the time that is external linkage and looseness, Rather common, for a ol Ford rign

 

Okay thanks Yes need to learn to do photo shop and outline things, and also for some reason the pictures came up small in some posts,

I am just learning how to do all this posting and website operation, and get clearer pictures, So thanks for checking out, and getting some feed back,

 

Very good, Yes it is rather time consuming posting all these pictures, and a little tricky holding the camera with a grease paw ,

But should have more stuff by the end of the week, as far as experience with these things, it has been my experience that after the 10 one is when you screw it up thinking you know whats going on, thats when something bites you ,,,

but in a couple days have some more stuff, will keep ya posted

 

Okay I will be adding a bit more to the C-6 thread this evening, Today I got it cleaned up and 80% back together

 

You're very welcome dude! I don't mind giving a little bit of a push in the right direction when it comes to build threads.

If your website is to be taken seriously, I wouldn't take JUST my opinions, but others opinions as well on how to improve your descriptions and over-all clarity of your message.

You're doing a great job so far, keep it up!

 

Backwood, I just read through your rebuilt thread on your website again, and it's truly amazing.

You did a fantastic job of taking some advice and taking lots of pictures and going a bit slower. Very nicely done!

I like how you took everyone very slowly back through the rebuild process and have shown each little step along the way. It's a VERY BIG improvement to your teardown portion of the thread.

That being said, keep up the pace (nice n' slow) and keep on truckin'! Hopefully that tranny turns out as good as it looks so far!

 

There is a part in the steering column that is the usual cause why the shift lever will not stay in Park.

What year is your truck?

 

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Glad you like it, thanks, I will finish it up as soon as I can, I will be able to put a hour in on it tonight,

 

well i'll bit because i have the same problem and live in fear of the truck running over my and the neighbor kid thanks
almost forgot the year...moron... its a 76 150 ranger xlt

 

I had the same problem with the Pumpkin's tranny., it would randomly pop out of park. On investigation, the cause in this case was wear in the external linkage, more exactly, the tranny shift arm and the small stud that connects the arm to the shift rod that goes up to the column.
In the picture, the hole in the shift arm that the stud goes in is wallowed out and the stud itself is pretty worn