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Night/MareCobra
05-29-2012, 12:42 PM
After driving a lil hard last week my car broke the pressure plate in 3 pieces so we changed it went to drive it now i dont have 3rd or 4th everyone seems to think its a shift fork anu ideas? And if it is a shift fork anyone feel like putting 1 in? Let me know thanks
Pitbull1052
05-29-2012, 12:53 PM
sounds like an input shaft to me and a good time to think about a t-56 swap
Night/MareCobra
05-29-2012, 12:55 PM
If i had the money that would be going in it just dont have that type of cash right now
Pitbull1052
05-29-2012, 01:04 PM
i heard that.......... that's my guess though but i'm not that familiar with the t-45s I just know what's been wrong with mine, my t-56 just got rebuilt due to an input shaft. I had a t-5 do it two years ago just driving along and lost 4th and 5th
Yellow98Cobra
05-29-2012, 02:41 PM
Just had to replace the input shaft, shift fork and bell housing in my 98 Cobra.
Yellow98Cobra
05-29-2012, 03:54 PM
Just had to replace the input shaft, shift fork and bell housing in my 98 Cobra.

And surprising enough it is a bitch to find a replacement bell housing.
Night/MareCobra
05-29-2012, 05:33 PM
im having hard time trying to find shift forks and input shaft lol how much was everything but the bellhousing for you?
Yellow98Cobra
05-30-2012, 11:25 AM
im having hard time trying to find shift forks and input shaft lol how much was everything but the bellhousing for you?

right around 150 for input shaft and shift fork.
Night/MareCobra
05-30-2012, 04:43 PM
Thats not bad...is it hard to put in?
blown96cobra
05-30-2012, 06:42 PM
go buy a new shift fork from ford and take it to a machine shop and have them aluminum weld it to re enforce it. youll have a hell of a time breaking it then. IF your running a stock shifter get rid of it and get something with stops or your gonna constantly be replacing broken forks
thrillrr
05-30-2012, 07:30 PM
Here are a couple of places I bought parts from
http://www.hanlonmotorsports.com
http://www.thet45source.com/
700hp04mystic
05-30-2012, 10:23 PM
new forks from ford r 40 bucks if u dont have 3 and 4 and have the rest then its not a broken imput shaft for sure. more then likely a fork or a little thing like a key way i call a slider bars. and yea what josh said is right about welding the fork i was the first one i no of to do that and have never broke another one scince.
cstreu1026
05-30-2012, 10:31 PM
Here are a couple of places I bought parts from
http://www.hanlonmotorsports.com
http://www.thet45source.com/

Jim at thet45source.com knows these things in and out. Get in touch with him and I am sure he can get you all squared away.
Pitbull1052
05-31-2012, 09:57 AM
i prefer D&D performance i'm not sure if they have t-45 parts or not but all i know is if you have a tremec issue and you call tremec they'll tell you to go to D&D
blown96cobra
05-31-2012, 11:23 AM
i prefer D&D performance i'm not sure if they have t-45 parts or not but all i know is if you have a tremec issue and you call tremec they'll tell you to go to D&D

i know one guy with a d&d built t45 and another guy with a promotion built t45 they both resuse the stock ford forks and both have broken them and replaced them with welded ones, go buy new ones from ford and have them aluminum welded. I guarantee they will never break again. Steve (700hp04mystic) shifts his 98cobra on the floor with a 150shot and its never given him a problem once he welded the forks.
Pitbull1052
05-31-2012, 11:55 AM
i know one guy with a d&d built t45 and another guy with a promotion built t45 they both resuse the stock ford forks and both have broken them and replaced them with welded ones, go buy new ones from ford and have them aluminum welded. I guarantee they will never break again. Steve (700hp04mystic) shifts his 98cobra on the floor with a 150shot and its never given him a problem once he welded the forks.







I just meant with his input shaft