Looking for tremec 3550/TKO install advice

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Okay Guys,

I am having major install issues with a tremec 3550. I am installing into a 95 track only stang. The issue I am having is that I can't get the tranny to bolt all the way up to the bellhousing. I am using the correct Quicktime bellhousing, Ram clutch anf pressure plate. The tranny will go most of the way in, but there is about an inch or so left to go. I have tried everything I can think of. I sent it off the a tranny shop and they are having the same issue, anyone have the same issue? Any ideas of what I can do?

 

Thanks for your help

[Raznkane]

Don't know much about the 3550 but if the bell is right check to see if the input shaft is actually going through the pilot brg as it may be a different size, or the input shaft length. I'm sure you probably checked this but it's all I can add.

 

Good luck

[panozracing]

i have had this issue a few times. For us it was always alignment of the clutch. I was using those cheap plastic alignment tools and they allowed too much play. We had a machine shop make us a tight fitting alignment tool and the problem has never come back. I have broken the case of the tremec trying to get it seated in a hurry. A precision alignment tool is a huge advantage!

[King Matt]

If it's just the clutch disc alignment, use the old trick of having someone step on the clutch pedal while you are seating the transmission. I use an old input shaft for better alignment, but if it's a 26-spline shaft, you would have to modify a GM input shaft for the Ford.

[nape]

If it's just the clutch disc alignment, use the old trick of having someone step on the clutch pedal while you are seating the transmission.

 

Ding ding ding. We have a winner

 

I only have a garbage plastic alignment tool, so every trans swap requires someone to step on the pedal.

[King Matt]

But I would hope any tranny shop he brought it to would know that, so unless they are truly incompetent, I would suspect the pilot bearing.

[panozracing]

But I would hope any tranny shop he brought it to would know that, so unless they are truly incompetent, I would suspect the pilot bearing.

 

Very true, I forgot it went to a tranny shop....

[pbr96]

Measure the input shaft length and the bell housing. Early cars (Pre80's) had a shorter bell housing and input shaft than the later cars and in 94 they got longer again. A T10 bell housing will not work with a Tremec unless it has a spacer or shorter input shaft, it was about an inch difference.