Don't want to open a new thread for this...just one question: I'm about to do a DMF to SMF conversion with a LUK kit on my F250 (DMF rattles like crazy sometimes) and I want to use bolts with the head cut of to guide the transmission back on - can someone tell me what bolts will fit?
They are 1/2" coarse thread bolts, will probably be listed as 1/2-13 in the bin at your hardware place. Length, well couple of inches, I'll crawl under truck tomorrow and give you a proper number there.
Took 2 of us 3 days to put a clutch in mine. Real PITA that I hope to never have to do again. Had to gut the interior to get the shiftier back in. We did pressure wash the trans and related components while it was out. I also over filled the trans with new oil through the shifter hole. Had to pull a side cover to fish a pin out that we dropped when removing the shifter.Then once it was all together I pulled the fill plug and let it drain till it was at the proper level. Man we fought that truck every inch of the way. Did not have to mess with the exhaust pipes but I don't have a turbo.
wow, you folks sure did get the short end of the stick there - I pulled a 4-speed and shoved in a ZF in about a day and a half, by myself, taking my sweet time, and that included moving crossmembers and reshaping the tunnel cover plate and fabbing a new shifter (factory one is horrible). Exhaust definitely needed to come down, this was the case fir both the 4-speed and the ZF with both the factory exhaust and the contraption that's on there now. Non-turbo truck too... So yeah, just plan on dropping the exhaust, and start spraying the manifold studs accordingly.
