400ci and trannies - Page 2

FaselZ71 · 10-28-2008, 10:54 PM

Maybe that's a thing I should check into because my truck feels like it has a shift kit in it already! I'm almost positive it doesn't because the previous owner of my truck was an excavation company they dumped a new motor in it that's been beat to **** partly by me partly because of the reason that it was a work truck! Anyway if I pull off a dirty muddy road onto a paved road 1-2 gear slams and the tires barely break loose and the truck kicks out alittle but then 2-3 and 3-OD are perfectly fine!

87c10slammer · 10-28-2008, 11:03 PM

nah yours is a completly the opposite of what were talking about... 1-2 shift winds out not slamms in to gear.. yours is more then likely an internal problem... what were talkinga bout is all external

FaselZ71 · 10-28-2008, 11:14 PM

Oh rite on!! Yes I thought it was something wrong but I'm a slacker sometimes and I think hey if it works don't fix it! And if theres something wrong and I don't know what it is I'll drive it till it breaks then I'll fix it!!

87c10slammer · 10-28-2008, 11:23 PM

yeah i have the same problem in my jimmy though... kicks when it gets warm... doesnt really do it unless im driving stop and go for more then an hour so it really never does it... its not something i am conserned about right now so ill let it go untill it gets worse and cost me a small fortune... like everyhting else on the truck....

FaselZ71 · 10-28-2008, 11:32 PM

Yeah mine happens just about anytime the truck comes to a stop and has something, anything on the tires when 1-2 shifts it jumps mainly to the driver side! I'm not concerned about it anyway everyone says whoa you gotta shift kit in this? I just say not sure bought that way but if I'm gonna get credit for it might as well soak it up right!! This is until I get a real shift or something does break!!!! B&M kit for my truck runs 149 on jegs so hopefully it'll happen sooner then later but got laid off this morning so not sure it's gonna happen till probably after X-mas!!

RoadHammerTLM · 01-09-2009, 09:23 AM

75K30,
So does that mean all 352 ci engines are big blocks? And if I wanted to put a manual tranny to it I would need one from a 332, 352,360, 390,406, 410, 427, or a 428?

Hammer

silverhairdeere · 01-09-2009, 09:43 AM

what you need is a transmision to fit the bellhousing of the fe motor you have .

shd

75K30 · 01-09-2009, 09:48 AM

silverhairdeere is ^^^^ 100% correct. The FE / FT engine is just that. This engine series is not considered to be a big block. Ford guys only refer to the 429 / 460 (385 series) as the big block.
There is quite a bit if FE stuff out there. This engibe is fairly popular. I ant seem to make any power from them, I must be a knucklehead, but others are having success.

silverhairdeere · 01-09-2009, 01:04 PM

used to race a fe back in the middle 60's a very under estmated engine as were the buicks .

shd

batty1214 · 01-09-2009, 04:26 PM

as for the manual trans, if you have a bellhousing that fits the motor, then you should be able to mount a trans of a similar year behind it..... but, your going to find mostly a 4 speed in everything. I have a 4 speed from a 400ci behind a 460 in my 78 ford, and its the same tranny..... Im not too sure about the automatics

10-28-2008, 10:54 PM	#11
FaselZ71 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 1,177	Maybe that's a thing I should check into because my truck feels like it has a shift kit in it already! I'm almost positive it doesn't because the previous owner of my truck was an excavation company they dumped a new motor in it that's been beat to ** partly by me partly because of the reason that it was a work truck! Anyway if I pull off a dirty muddy road onto a paved road 1-2 gear slams and the tires barely break loose and the truck kicks out alittle but then 2-3 and 3-OD are perfectly fine! __________________ IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!!!** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8MDNFaGfT4

10-28-2008, 11:14 PM	#13
FaselZ71 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 1,177	Oh rite on!! Yes I thought it was something wrong but I'm a slacker sometimes and I think hey if it works don't fix it! And if theres something wrong and I don't know what it is I'll drive it till it breaks then I'll fix it!! __________________ IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8MDNFaGfT4

10-28-2008, 11:32 PM	#15
FaselZ71 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 1,177	Yeah mine happens just about anytime the truck comes to a stop and has something, anything on the tires when 1-2 shifts it jumps mainly to the driver side! I'm not concerned about it anyway everyone says whoa you gotta shift kit in this? I just say not sure bought that way but if I'm gonna get credit for it might as well soak it up right!! This is until I get a real shift or something does break!!!! B&M kit for my truck runs 149 on jegs so hopefully it'll happen sooner then later but got laid off this morning so not sure it's gonna happen till probably after X-mas!! __________________ IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8MDNFaGfT4

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10-28-2008, 11:03 PM	#12
87c10slammer Banned Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: levittown pa Posts: 2,197	nah yours is a completly the opposite of what were talking about... 1-2 shift winds out not slamms in to gear.. yours is more then likely an internal problem... what were talkinga bout is all external

10-28-2008, 11:23 PM	#14
87c10slammer Banned Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: levittown pa Posts: 2,197	yeah i have the same problem in my jimmy though... kicks when it gets warm... doesnt really do it unless im driving stop and go for more then an hour so it really never does it... its not something i am conserned about right now so ill let it go untill it gets worse and cost me a small fortune... like everyhting else on the truck....

01-09-2009, 09:23 AM	#16
RoadHammerTLM Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 301	75K30, So does that mean all 352 ci engines are big blocks? And if I wanted to put a manual tranny to it I would need one from a 332, 352,360, 390,406, 410, 427, or a 428? Hammer

01-09-2009, 09:43 AM	#17
silverhairdeere Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: land between the lakes tn Posts: 1,184	what you need is a transmision to fit the bellhousing of the fe motor you have . shd

01-09-2009, 09:48 AM	#18
75K30 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,992	silverhairdeere is ^^^^ 100% correct. The FE / FT engine is just that. This engine series is not considered to be a big block. Ford guys only refer to the 429 / 460 (385 series) as the big block. There is quite a bit if FE stuff out there. This engibe is fairly popular. I ant seem to make any power from them, I must be a knucklehead, but others are having success.

01-09-2009, 01:04 PM	#19
silverhairdeere Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: land between the lakes tn Posts: 1,184	used to race a fe back in the middle 60's a very under estmated engine as were the buicks . shd

01-09-2009, 04:26 PM	#20
batty1214 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Vernal Utah Posts: 1,135	as for the manual trans, if you have a bellhousing that fits the motor, then you should be able to mount a trans of a similar year behind it..... but, your going to find mostly a 4 speed in everything. I have a 4 speed from a 400ci behind a 460 in my 78 ford, and its the same tranny..... Im not too sure about the automatics