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(of course if the harmonic damper is damaged, like there's a chunk missing out of it or it's got some weird balance problem, yeah, you might well detect that…)

The "vibration damper" on the front of the crankshaft is properly called a harmonic damper. The vibrations it damps are not the kind you feel in the body or steering wheel of the car; they are the kind which would make the crankshaft subject to breakage like a wine glass shattering along with...

Full-manual valve body and always start out in 3rd gear!

Somebody swapped most of a '77-'83 "Super Six" 2-barrel setup onto your car, and didn't put in the complete kickdown linkage. Super Six kickdown assemblies have grown rare and costly. See this thread for kickdown options. In the meantime, no need to be afraid of driving it even at normal...

Get it from Pat Blais—then you can do the install and not have to worry about whether it's the right piece, whether the quality's decent, etc.

Also keep in mind there are numerous different-length kickdown levers (at the trans). If your lever's not the right length vs. your throttle lever, you'll run out of trans lever travel before throttle lever travel or vice-versa.

That is not correct. A transmission that behaves this way is faulty or misadjusted. When they're in good condition and adjusted correctly, flooring the accelerator in 2nd gear below a certain road speed (determined by rear axle ratio and tire size) kicks the trans down to 1st, doing it in 3rd...

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No, but if you value your time and effort, and want to do this job only once until the next time you happen to need to drop the pan, it's well worth your time—even if you're in the middle of the job—to go fetch Chrysler's own really nice double-seal, reusable rigid pan gasket № 4295 875AC. A...

The standard-equipment rear axle ratio in '73 with automatic trans (any engine, any axle size) in was 2.76. With trailer-tow package or manual transmission, it was 3.21/3.23. A 198/auto/2.76 '73 with your ø25.16" tires is undergeared. It's going to be sluggish and slow around town, but it...

Ugh. Whatever it turns out to have been, please let us know…sounds like the shop might not have been quite familiar enough with the pre-'66 Torqueflites.

Another possibility is that the shift selector linkage is not correctly adjusted. If it's revving high, that probably means it's not shifting out of second (or if it's revving really high, it's not shifting out of first). Perhaps when the shifter indicates "D", the transmission is actually in...

A large-hub torque converter does not fit a Torqueflite originally equipped with a small-hub torque converter. You need either a custom converter built with the splines to suit the earlier transmission but the large snout, or a small-hub torque converter plus a 3.175mm annular adaptor ring to...

Anyone who builds converters to specification can do this. There isn't a difference in converters for cable-shift ("Pushbutton", pre-1966) vs. rod-shift ('66-up) Torqueflites; the difference is between small-hub and large-hub converters. Simply specify you need a small-hub converter for a 1965...

See this thread for kickdown options.

Sure...if you want to cook the transmission to an early death.

X2 on Espo (Badsport's link). Knowledgeable people, quality parts, reliable service, good prices.

New style gasket: Yes. See here.

Much too wide.

The 1966 factory parts catalog (final edition) is the source of my info. Yes. And the transmission in this discussion (2538 331) is in fact a 727. This thread doesn't involve a 904 (and I can't think of a reason why the spacer/adaptor wouldn't work to put a '68-up 904LA behind a slant-6...

1966 B- and C-body with 318 or with 225 (police/taxi) is correct. This transmission has the A/LA V8 bellhousing. When used behind the 225, an adaptor package was used consisting of a bellhousing adaptor plate and a crankshaft to flexplate spacer (to account for the thickness of the bellhousing...

Life is like a thread on FABO; you nyever know whatchyer gonna gyit.

A brand new transmission to suit your '73 slant-6 Valiant can be bought for $350 here; the guy's got a warehouse full of them and has been selling them for about four years now.

Dacron filters first came as standard equipment on the Torqueflite in 1964. That's the type to use unless you are installing an in-line external filter of some kind in which case you can use a brass screen in the trans. I like genuine Chrysler filters better than aftermarket. Save yourself a...

New fluid will not eat up or finish off the clutches, or otherwise kill a transmission that is fundamentally sound. If the transmission is walking-dead, it will die soon with new fluid or old. If it is still basically sound but is being beaten up by varnish and lack of lubricity (old fluid), it...

'78 was the first year.

New pan, new bolts, current Mopar gasket.

Then look for the leak elsewhere. Shift selector shaft seal, speedometer cable adaptor O-ring, dipstick tube O-ring, Neutral Safety/reverse lamp switch, front seal, rear seal, fluid line connections.

See here.

Your first measurement strongly suggests a 2.76 or 2.93 ratio. I can't figure out why you'd want to change that, and I don't see you talking about symptoms of a failing ring and pinion, so…why even thinking about replacing the ring and pinion?