E40D to a ZF
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E40D to a ZF
Hey everyone, My truck that I have now have a orginal E40D tranny with a 194,500 onit. The truck is a 1993 F-250 4x4, 7.3 IDI. I was thinking about swaping in a ZF standard transmission, Becasue I really don't like the E40D's, Also the E40D that is in it know feels like its on its way out, I not really sure if I want to spend the money for a rebuild on it, I rather have a standard tranny in there instead, So has anyone ever done this before. Whats involded other than swaping out the tranny and adding in the clutch parts, I like my truck and would like to keep it for a long while. Let me know.
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Shane
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Shane
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You will need drive shafts. Had it done on my truck. If you use the single mass flywheel it will make a horendous racket kind of sounds like gravel in a cement truck. Brutal Offroad did my conversion and it was a class act.
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Automatic or Manual
You really need to think hard as to whether you want an "automatic" or "manual" truck.
I got both and even with all the crap I went thru to get my automatic to run properly, at the end of the day I find myself driving my automatic more that my standard these days. I do a lot of city driving and I get a sore left knee from all that clutching after a few hours.
Remember, you never know what you had until it is gone.
Seb...
I got both and even with all the crap I went thru to get my automatic to run properly, at the end of the day I find myself driving my automatic more that my standard these days. I do a lot of city driving and I get a sore left knee from all that clutching after a few hours.
Remember, you never know what you had until it is gone.
Seb...
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Hey everyone, My truck that I have now have a orginal E40D tranny with a 194,500 onit. The truck is a 1993 F-250 4x4, 7.3 IDI. I was thinking about swaping in a ZF standard transmission, Becasue I really don't like the E40D's, Also the E40D that is in it know feels like its on its way out, I not really sure if I want to spend the money for a rebuild on it, I rather have a standard tranny in there instead, So has anyone ever done this before. Whats involded other than swaping out the tranny and adding in the clutch parts, I like my truck and would like to keep it for a long while. Let me know.
Thanks
Shane
Thanks
Shane
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I swapped mine over to the 5spd last summer. The trans are different lengths (about 5",s) so both front and rear driveshafts are needed. Look for a donor truck if you decide. I went with the SMF and my trans doesn't sound as bad as most guys say about theirs. The only odd thing that I ran into was the vacuum switch on the pedal assy. I reworked the old one and no problem. The switch was part of the cruise control system. Hope this helps. I love my 92 F350 crewcab but was tired of problems with the E4OD, it has 335,000 on it and I plan to run it until either I drop or it does. I'm 68 so I think the truck will still be going after me.