3 speed to C6
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3 speed to C6
I found a killer deal on a good C6, ps column, and all the linkage out of a 72 styleside that is being parted out.
I would like to have the C6 but I have a 75 parts truck that has a 3 speed ps column I have been planning on installing in my 66.
If I buy the C6, I can also get the driveshafts. Do I need both of them or just the front one?
Will this be a plug-n-play swap? I know I have to move the tranny crossmember, I already have a AT radiator, and the proper carb and linkage.
I can probably sell the 3 speed ps column for what I would pay for the C6 stuff.
I would like to have the C6 but I have a 75 parts truck that has a 3 speed ps column I have been planning on installing in my 66.
If I buy the C6, I can also get the driveshafts. Do I need both of them or just the front one?
Will this be a plug-n-play swap? I know I have to move the tranny crossmember, I already have a AT radiator, and the proper carb and linkage.
I can probably sell the 3 speed ps column for what I would pay for the C6 stuff.
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From: Creedmoor, North Carolina
I found a killer deal on a good C6, ps column, and all the linkage out of a 72 styleside that is being parted out.
I would like to have the C6 but I have a 75 parts truck that has a 3 speed ps column I have been planning on installing in my 66.
If I buy the C6, I can also get the driveshafts. Do I need both of them or just the front one?
Will this be a plug-n-play swap? I know I have to move the tranny crossmember, I already have a AT radiator, and the proper carb and linkage.
I can probably sell the 3 speed ps column for what I would pay for the C6 stuff.
I would like to have the C6 but I have a 75 parts truck that has a 3 speed ps column I have been planning on installing in my 66.
If I buy the C6, I can also get the driveshafts. Do I need both of them or just the front one?
Will this be a plug-n-play swap? I know I have to move the tranny crossmember, I already have a AT radiator, and the proper carb and linkage.
I can probably sell the 3 speed ps column for what I would pay for the C6 stuff.
1- C6 & linkage only,
2- driveshafts, I am not sure, I went to a 1 piece cut to fit.
3- By 73 most trucks were headed to auto, so your 75 3 spd may have value. You will need to grab a column from another 73-79 if the ps will be added at the same time.
It is not plug & play but not overly complicated.
I recommend swapping all at the same time. I also like to put a rebuilt tranny and engine in for piece of mind.
Guluk.
John
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My 352 is good for another 5 years, I have the 390 out of my parts truck to rebuild when I need it.
The truck with the c6 is intact, so I can get and need to get everything I need all at once. As soon as it starts to get parted there is little chance I can go back later and get something I forgot and still find it on the truck.
Im not 100% onboard with doing the swap. I like the column shift 3 speed, no one ever asks to borrow my truck and having ps and pb is an oddity in an old truck like this. It makes for good conversation at car shows.
The truck with the c6 is intact, so I can get and need to get everything I need all at once. As soon as it starts to get parted there is little chance I can go back later and get something I forgot and still find it on the truck.
Im not 100% onboard with doing the swap. I like the column shift 3 speed, no one ever asks to borrow my truck and having ps and pb is an oddity in an old truck like this. It makes for good conversation at car shows.
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From: Creedmoor, North Carolina
Whether you shift or not is a personal call, I say damn a full grown Ford truck that can't shift it's own gears. So it's auto for me. If they were always breaking down it could be another call, but they are pretty much bullet proof. 
John
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