4 speed ka-booom !

Earlier in the thread I refered to the slider shoe, this is what I was talking about, they get pretty banged up, and I always swap out the strut key's, and spring's too, there the little tab's your talking about, and there about $9 on ebay, you will need to know what you have, the early or late style, the early ones are narrower, 71 on up would be wider ones, which I'm assuming you have. I taper the ends of the slider shoe, and get them hardened, also these are the snap ring pliers I use, and they work awesome!
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