1969 Galaxie 500 - high school/college kid budget build

Yeah and we don't get out there near often enough.
It's only 12 miles from my house.

BigBlockRanger wrote:Yeah and we don't get out there near often enough.  
It's only 12 miles from my house.

That would be nice the closest track to my house is probably 40 miles away!!Far enough that i wouldn't want to drive the Mustang!!Now if it was only 12 miles away i would have no problems driving the Mustang to the track!!

While this is still my son's project car, I have to do some behind the scenes work on it. He is away at school and is unable to work on it, so I try to do stuff to facilitate progress when he is home.

I started messing with the E4OD we hope to put in this car. This particular one does not have a provision for a speedo drive or output speed sensor.

I popped the tailshaft housing off to see if I could come up with a way to retrofit a reluctor wheel of some sort.

While I had the tail shaft housing off I noticed that the parking pawl does not have a return spring. I always knew this transmission had a rattling noise in it but I thought it was in the torque converter. I only heard it when I was decelerating. I'm glad it never decided to put itself in park while I was moving!!

I designed a reluctor wheel for it and printed it out with my 3D printer. If it fits as expected I'll have send cut send cut one out of steel.

I popped the 3d printed reluctor on the shaft. Fits just like I hoped.

Next step is to figure out where to mount a hall effect sensor. I'm not sure the speedo drive hole is the best location as it it bored on a tangent to the shaft and not radial. We'll see

I elected the drill a new hole just below the speedo drive to mount the sensor. The speedo drive hole was just too high compared to the center line of the output shaft.

I drilled a half inch hole and it's almost aimed directly at the shaft center line. Then I took some aluminum and made a plate that will support the sensor. I still have to come up with a way to seal it, but I don't think that'll be a big deal.