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Originally Posted by ERA 626
I just bought a .82 Road race TKO 600 form Modern Drive Line. Its not been installed yet. Its still on my work bench. I am reading this thread and wonder how difficutt is the Liberty modification to do my self? is it worth the trouble? I have a CSX 6xxx car with a 3.54 rear gear. The motor is going to be a 650/650 shelby aluminum 482.
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Like Brent already said, the transmissions need to be completely disassembled to do the work. If you are familiar with manual transmissions the job is not that difficult. Unless you have access to a machine shop you will be hard pressed to install the TKO threaded front cluster support cap. The other mods you can easily do yourself.
The surface treatments on the gears you can have done to your own gears by Liberty or another firm you may like to use and then install them yourself. Again if you are familiar with manual transmissions you can easily do the necessary shimming required for the particular transmission you are using.
I did my own TKO 600. The actual time required on the bench upgrading the trans was about 4 hours, start to finish including an eat in lunch. That said I have been working on these types of transmissions since the 1960's and have a good familiarity. If you have no familiarity but good mechanical skills and want to learn on your trans you're probably looking at a weekend, start to finish not including install and removal time. If you have no familiarity and limited mechanical skills you need to have someone do it for you.
Ed