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Old 10-09-2014, 04:13 AM
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Originally Posted by RET_COP View Post
I've been on the Ford websites a lot over the years and those guys Hamer the crap out of those transmissions, faceplated and all and i never heard of breaking third gear. Ive seen a lot of carnage in my years of drag racing, could this isolated incident just be a bad third gear from a metallurgy standpoint. I mean this stuff happens. I don't doubt that the .140 is an issue but does it directly result in a breakage problem the we all know about? Im not seeing that.
Agreed....

I've moved a lot of TKO's and my supplier has moved probably 100x that....neither one of us have ever heard of or seen this failure before.

You can not preach this as gospel, when it's the only incident that has ever been shown.
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