There are a couple of threads on the stovebolt.com message board and a tech
article by Grant Galbraith about this conversion. I just bought an S10 trans
and a Camaro T5 to combine for an overdrive 5-speed. I'll post the results.
Jack Halton
51 GMC 1/2 ton
Winter Park FL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Culver" <sculver@iwl.net>
To: "oletrucks list" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 4:02 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] transmission upgrade
> Somewhere down the road I may think about installing a 5-speed
transmission
> from an S-10. Has anyone done this with a 3/4 ton AD, and does anyone
know
> the difference in gear ratio (or rpm at a given speed) between the
original
> 4-speed w/granny gear, and the 5-speed? And finally, how big a job is the
> conversion? I assume it will be more complicated than a straight bolt-in,
> but will it take a lot of modification?
>
> Thanks in advance-
>
> Smokey Culver
> '50 3600 5-window (mine)
> '56 3600 (hers)
> League City, Texas
>
> P.S. Thanks again, everyone, for all the responses to my heavy hauling
> dilema. Y'all gave me some great info!
>
>
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