i put a t-18 in this summer and i have never dealt with a more akward and heavy transmission. it almost won.
always
"i believe i've achieved satisfaction".-bubbles
"should i be gettin" baked for this boys?"-bubbles
i could no longer keep "r.i.p.ing" all of our fallen brothers and sisters, so i say here, slick loads of love and much respect to all you beautiful people.
...and about half way down this list is a description of the Borg Warner T-18 4speed transmission.
Some folks don't like them because of the low or "granny" 1st gear ratio, others don't like the fact that their 1st and Reverse gears are NOT synchronized (unable to shift in/out while rolling).
2ndly, because the T-18 4th gear is 1:1, it isn't very forgiving for fuel mileage when your Slick has a high-numerically / low ratio rear end gear set; such as 4.10 gears that came in many 3/4 ton Slicks. For that reason, many folks find it easier/cheaper to change out the transmission instead of the rear end gears.
No troubles so far.. Not on the road yet. I did fill it with gear oil and run it through the gears.. Nice and quiet.. I am not impressed with the shifter. Hopefully I can remedy that with some adjustments..
I just finally today talked to the driveline shop today.. I am going to have them retube a shaft I have. I do have one that is too long that would just need shortening but the joints are 1330's (the truck has 1310).. A new tube will be more $ but a much better job overall without oddball joints...
The driveline guys are near my work twice a week, hopefully a week from now I can try it out..
jwh f-100 wrote:BTW, I think T-18 means "two 18 year" old helpers to remove.. One 36 year old is not the same LOL.. My muscles will be hurting in the morning..
I was under the impression that is why we had kids so when we get older we can get them to do the heavy lifting that we did when we were that age.
Kevin
kstones63
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63 F100
29 Ford Sedan Delivery
99 F250 PSD, 4x4, CC
95 F350 Flatbed Dually Diesel
Nice looking shaft Jason. Cool thing about having one made is they build it true so it doesn't need weights. Factory uses weights to fix their shoddy driveshaft work.
1964 F 100 - I am going to do "something" with it.......
Looks like you got a great deal there Jason. Funny seeing this conversation about T-18's. I bought a 78' F-350 dually Reverse is over to right and up, My 78' 150 is over and down. I know my 150 has a T-18, the 350 is supposed to have the same thing, after investigating a little I found out theres 2 versions of the T-18 and the earlier version, reverse is over to the right and up. http://www.novak-adapt.com/knowledge/t18_t19.htm
Charlie
62' SWB uni 223
66' F-100 Short/wide 352
78' F-350 dually dumpbed 400
12' F-150 5.0 3:73 LS
