Slick shifted transmission
Back when i ran Saginaw 4spds in a street/strip car, i was slick shifting 2nd and 3rd which initially worked great. But after a few weeks of street driving, 3rd gear lugs would burr over slightly requiring the transmission to be torn down to remove the burrs. In an attempt to improve on that, i bought some TKO faceplate parts from Liberty that i used to modify my Saginaw's 3rd gear to faceplate.
Huge improvement...never had to dress 3rd gear again. When broke a 3rd gear, i'd cut the faceplate part from the broken 3rd gear and weld it onto a replacement gear.
Here's a pic of one of my Saginaw mainshafts, synchros on 1st and 4th, slick shifted 2nd, and faceplated 3rd...
To install the faceplate onto the Saginaw slider, i split the TKO slider with a cutoff wheel using a die grinder mounted to the tool holder on my lathe. Then it was a matter of machining a locating step to locate the parts properly, then welding them together. I even used a MIG welder instead of a TIG, never had a problem. Here's a pic of one side of a TKO faceplate slider MIG welded to the 2nd gear side of a Toploader slider...
That same slider is in my Toploader right now, been in there for several years of street/strip (1.30 60's on drag radials) without any problems at all.
Back when i ran Saginaw 4spds in a street/strip car, i was slick shifting 2nd and 3rd which initially worked great. But after a few weeks of street driving, 3rd gear lugs would burr over slightly requiring the transmission to be torn down to remove the burrs. In an attempt to improve on that, i bought some TKO faceplate parts from Liberty that i used to modify my Saginaw's 3rd gear to faceplate.
Huge improvement...never had to dress 3rd gear again. When broke a 3rd gear, i'd cut the faceplate part from the broken 3rd gear and weld it onto a replacement gear.
Here's a pic of one of my Saginaw mainshafts, synchros on 1st and 4th, slick shifted 2nd, and faceplated 3rd...
To install the faceplate onto the Saginaw slider, i split the TKO slider with a cutoff wheel using a die grinder mounted to the tool holder on my lathe. Then it was a matter of machining a locating step to locate the parts properly, then welding them together. I even used a MIG welder instead of a TIG, never had a problem. Here's a pic of one side of a TKO faceplate slider MIG welded to the 2nd gear side of a Toploader slider...
That same slider is in my Toploader right now, been in there for several years of street/strip (1.30 60's on drag radials) without any problems at all.
