My '66 is bolted on.

 

wooo hooo!! Mine's bolted too.

 

Yeah right. Compare your analogy with the facts:

I was a Ford partsman for 35 years and have been a car collector for 52 years...twice your age.

I've owned and worked on many of the cars from the classic era (some you've prolly never even heard of) including:

Packards, Cadillacs, RR's, Duesenbergs, Pierce-Arrows, Delage's, Isotta-Frascini's, Hisso's, Mercedes, Delahayes, Horch's, and dozens of others.

I have owned over 326 cars/trucks...80 of which were Fords, 60 of which were Packards.

What I typed about 1961/64 frames inre to 1965/66 frames only requires one to compare them to see the difference.

Current car collection: 1934 Packard V12 Dietrich Convertible Victoria, one of two known. 1939 Packard Super 8 Sedan. 1962 Bentley Continental Flying Spur, body by Hooper, a one off custom built for King Farouk of Egypt. 1963 Studebaker R2 Super Hawk, a pre-production model that ran at Bonneville in 1962 during the USAC Speed Trials. 2 1963 Galaxie 500XL's, and a 1965 F100 I bought new.

 

Bill, thats your real name right??/ you are my hero!!! ive been around cars all my 18 years of life... and have only know what 4 of those car makes are!!! and 326 different cars!! HAHAHA

as for the tranny question, my sudjestion, is order the part... put on your work clothes, open up a manual and get busy!!! cause im not really sure what any one here is really talking about... other then Bill owning 326 different cars.. plus the best way to learn is just do it...

 

If it's like mine the radiator handles the cooling. I been there and done that, was easier to just pull the engine as stated. Plus you can clean everything up

Pro1963: I wouldn't be bragging about being 26 and having worked on more cars than a man twice your age has even seen. Thats just the stupidest ****ing comment I heard in I dunno when.

 

you wanna cookie i know all those car brands and my dad owned his own garage i have been working on cars since i was 8 years old when i wasnt in school iwas at the shop working on customs or classics i was working restoring one off cars like george barris and willhelm cars cars that are priceless your know one of a kind cars that you never see anymore cars that you might know just for example willhelms wonder it was a show car from the 60s it won many awards so just cause i made one mistake on the crossmember thing dont think you know more than me

 

Redman, my '66 does not cool through the transmission. I think that came later with the C-6 .

 

i mean no disrespect to you i bet you know alot but if you knew my back ground better you would know that i know alot too more than most kids my age and it comes from 4 generations of mechanics that i learned from but you gotta see that you disrespected me first by calling me junior or kid or whaterver so like i said no disrespect towards you i just dont like being call junior or kid son kiddo or anything like that thanks

 

This is becoming obnoxious. Enough already. You were corrected and took it personally. If you know everything there is to know, then you don't need this forum. The whole point is that this is a place to share information. You could certainly use a lesson in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and run-on sentences.

 

Might should have spent a few more hours in class and less under a hood from the looks of it. Nicely done, tact is an earned talent.

 

No disrespect was meant, I call everyone on FTE "kiddo" even the very few members that are older than I.

 

you know NummberDummy your ok but there sure are a couple of jerks in here. I just wanna talk about cars not be rude of mean about anything.

 

Bill,

The cross member I am refering to is located on section 50 page 5 and is call out 5025 and that is riveted on my truck. Cross member call out 5019 of course is the cross member right above the Twin I-beam's and where the engine mounts are located and call out 6A023 is where the transmission mounts to. 5025 is in the way of dropping the transmission out the bottom on my truck, there is not enough room between the floor of the cab and the cross member 5025 for the bell housing to clear.

This is also the cross member call out 5025 that I thought I heard some where is bolted on trucks equipped with an automatic transmission.

Jeff

 

C8TZ-6A023-A .. Support-Use with A/T (Replaced C5TZ-6A023-B & G)

This support is what some here refer to as a crossmember...whatever you wanna call it, it's bolted in and the transmission mount bolts to it.

5019 is the #1 crossmember, 5025 is crossmember #2, the support (6A023) comes next.

 

I do agree that this support/cross member is bolted to the frame, as there are two locations to bolt it to the frame depending on what engine transmission combo was equipped in the truck.

When I said in an earlier post about one being riveted I was talking about 5025 #2 crossmember.

Jeff