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1959 FORD THUNDERBIRD Transmission & Drivetrain
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Eaton Detroit Truetrac Differentials
Eaton Detroit Truetrac differentials use a patented design of parallel-axis planetary helix gears to provide a quiet, automatic splitting of torque. They perform like a limited-slip differential under normal driving conditions, automatically transferring torque to the wheel with better traction when ground conditions warrant. These replacement units are available for dozens of axle applications.
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$675.99
McLeod StreetPro Clutch Kits
McLeod StreetPro clutch kits are excellent performance clutches for street enthusiasts. StreetPros are ideal for use with basic engine modifications, including cold-air intakes, exhaust upgrades, and engine management programming. These McLeod kits provide slightly heavier pedal effort with increased holding capacity, making them excellent factory replacement performance clutches. Order the size to match your vehicle specifications. Additional features and benefits include: * Bolt to stock flywheels * Handle up to 400 hp * Organic disc facing for smooth engagement with excellent release qualities
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$305.00
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$425.00
Hurst Street Super Shifters
Based on the racing version of the legendary Super Shifter 3, these Hurst Street Super Shifters have many of the same quality features for a new level in street performance. They feature: * A 7 1/2 in. tall chrome-plated stick (3/8 in. -16 thread) for a short throw, 4 3/4 in knob travel between gears * High-mounting design assures proper linkage rod alignment * Heat-treated components for extra strength and reliability * Adjustable gear stops to prevent overshifts
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$562.95
Richmond Gear Pro Gear Ring and Pinion Sets
Richmond Gear Pro Gear ring and pinion sets take it a step further. The gear sets are designed for race use only where hard launches and severe heat cycling occurs. They're made from a softer, more malleable 9310 steel alloy to be more resistant to breakage under harsh racing conditions. These gears feature an outstanding rotating weight loss of up to 6 pounds, ground pinion threads for trouble-free installation, and a special heat treatment for improved strength.
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$519.34
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$915.99
Timken Wheel Bearings
Timken wheel bearings are designed to be exact replacements for your OEM wheel bearings. Their steel roller bearing configuration allows for maximum performance without sacrificing durability. Available for a variety of passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs, these Timken wheel bearings will get you back on the road in no time.
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$40.99
Richmond Gear Ring and Pinion Sets
Richmond Gear is the leading manufacturer of professional-quality, high performance ring and pinion sets. The superior quality of these gear sets is the result of years of racing development, outstanding design, and state-of-the-art manufacturing methods. Richmond also offers these gear sets in a lightened version for the weight-conscious enthusiast. Their lightened ring and pinion sets feature an outstanding rotating weight loss of up to 6 lbs., ground pinion threads for trouble-free installation, and a special heat treatment for improved strength.
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$536.99
Spicer Drivetrain Products Differential Cover Kits
Rust, rocks, and road debris all take part in destroying differential covers—so Spicer Drivetrain Products introduces a line of axle-specific replacements. These kits include a new cover, plug, and installation bolts for an all-new look. They're available in a variety of materials and finishes for high strength and good looks. The differential covers are offered for the front or rear with select options for your particular application.
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$165.99
McLeod RST Street Twin Clutch Kits
Intended for high-horsepower street fans, the McLeod RST Street Twin clutch kits are economically priced twin disc clutches that use your existing flywheel. Able to handle up to 800 hp, the RST Street Twin clutches remain completely street-drivable. The organic lined clutch discs provide smooth engagement with a soft pedal effort, making these clutch kits ideal for the street performance enthusiast. (For select vehicles where these clutches are not adaptable to your existing flywheel, a new flywheel is included in the kit.) Here are some additional features of the McLeod RST Street Twin clutch kits: * Alignment tool included * Lighter-than-stock pedal feel * Will bolt to factory flywheel * CNC-machined and anodized flywheel adapter ring * Organic disc facing for smooth and even clutch engagement with excellent release qualities * Low rotating mass for quick revs * Blanchard ground floater with multiple straps to reduce noise for streetability
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$825.00
McLeod Super StreetPro Clutch Kits
McLeod Super StreetPro clutch kits are great Street/Strip performance clutches—perfect for use with moderate engine modifications, including intake and exhaust upgrades, camshaft and cylinder head work, and engine management programming. Super StreetPro kits provide a heavier pedal effort than stock, along with improved holding capacity, making these excellent high performance replacement clutches. Additional features and benefits include: * SFI-approved assembly * Handle up to 500 hp * Dual-faced organic and ceramic disc for smooth engagement with exceptional holding capacity
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$435.00
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$495.00
McLeod Steel Flywheels
Sometimes you just want steel! Lightweight alloy flywheels can offer substantial benefits for certain situations, but sometimes they're just not your cup of tea. Maybe you're on a budget, maybe you're running a heavy drag car, or maybe you just don't need those benefits. If that's the case, McLeod has the answer. Their steel flywheels deliver all of the strength and reliability that you need, at a substantially lower price. They're neutrally balanced, but are drilled to accept balance weights for use on externally balanced engines. McLeod steel flywheels available for a wide variety of large and small engines.
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$415.00
Motive Gear Ring and Pinion Sets
Motive Gear is the leading manufacturer of driveline products for just about any vehicle, whether it is a stock daily driver or a full-competition 4x4 or race car. They are proud to offer an unmatched selection of quality components engineered and manufactured for the vehicle and for the way it is driven. Motive Gear ring and pinion sets are engineered to meet or exceed OEM specifications at a price that won't break your budget. Their broad selection of ring and pinion ratios is available for just about every vehicle made from the 1940s through the present. All Motive Gear products meet strict quality standards through advanced manufacturing techniques and are backed by their strong warranty. Their in-house quality control lab utilizes state-of-the-art equipment to continuously check Motive Gear products for strength, tolerance, and hardness. Only after meeting stringent quality standards are Motive Gear products packaged and ready for delivery.
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Richmond Gear EXCel Ring and Pinion Sets
Richmond Gear EXCel ring and pinion sets are manufactured to meet the exacting specifications required by Richmond Gear. The design, tooling, steel selection, and heat-treat recipes are all controlled by Richmond Gear to produce cost-alternative ring and pinion sets. The Richmond Gear EXCel ring and pinion sets offer exceptional value with better-than-OEM quality. Available in a wide variety of gear ratios, the Richmond Gear EXCel ring and pinion sets will give you maximum confidence in your differential.
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$190.98
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$396.99
Hurst Indy 3-Speed Shifters
Hurst Indy three-speed shifters are designed to fit most popular passenger cars with three-speed manual transmissions. These shifters are ideal for column shift conversions or for floor shift replacements. They feature an attractive chrome plated stick and spring loaded gate, and come with hardware and instructions.
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$409.95
Summit Racing™ Street-Strip Performance Clutch Kits
Summit Racing™ offers Street-Strip Performance clutch kits for hundreds of cars, trucks, and vans. They're ideal for use with moderate engine modifications, including intake and exhaust upgrades, camshaft and cylinder head work, and engine management programming. These kits provide a heavier pedal effort than stock, along with improved holding capacity, making them excellent high performance replacement clutches. Order the size and options recommended for your vehicle. Additional details: * Can accommodate up to 500 hp * Dual-faced organic and ceramic disc for smooth engagement with exceptional holding capacity * Kits include a pressure plate, disc, throwout bearing (unless specified otherwise), and alignment tool
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$398.99
Motive Gear Performance Ring and Pinion Sets
Motive Gear Performance ring and pinions are perfect for dedicated racing or off-road vehicles. Their gear sets are made from first-run steel, they never use recycled metal. This allows Motive Gear Performance ring and pinions to handle the extreme torque from high-horsepower racing engines. Extensive engineering, computer-controlled heat treatment, superior strength, quality and the widest selection of racing gear ratios, makes Motive Gear Performance ring and pinions the clear winner! Engineered to the highest standards, every Motive Gear Performance product goes through rigid quality control processes in their in-house lab. Motive Gear Performance also offers a lightweight alternative to standard ring and pinion gear sets. Their AX Series ring and pinions are designed to increase horsepower and efficiency by removing rotating weight. Professional race teams have used custom-lightened drivetrain parts for years, resulting in faster times and more wins. The AX Series gears from Motive are lightened during the manufacturing process; this results in gear sets that have been engineered, not modified. Computer-controlled heat treatment, index tooth spacing, and CNC machining all go into AX Series performance gear sets. Motive Gear Performance: What the pros run!
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$289.99
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$603.99
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Moog Premium U-Joints
Moog Premium U-joints are precision-manufactured to exacting standards. They have forged and case-hardened alloy steel crosses and heat-treated needle bearings. Cold-formed radial bearing cups provide 360 degree lubrication distribution, while superior-quality seals, and a grease fitting in the cross body make for easy maintenance. The U-joints are available for nearly two dozen positions, in universal and vehicle-specific applications.
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$12.99
Summit Racing Equipment® U-Joints
Don't ignore the signs! A clunking and clanging noise, intense vibrations at accelerated speeds ... it could be an indication of a failing U-joint. If that's the diagnosis, here is the solution--replace it with one of our Summit Racing Equipment® U-joints. These drivetrain components are engineered from quality materials to meet or exceed OE standards, and are available in applications with forged and case-hardened alloy steel crosses for lasting service life. The bearing cups are case-hardened for strength and durability, and superior seals help keep contaminants out and allow for proper lubrication. Plus, a grease fitting in the cross body allows for easy maintenance. Select your part application and install it to avoid complete U-joint failure--problem solved!
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$14.99
Hays Heavy-Duty Flexplates
Hays heavy-duty flexplates for high performance and competition engines are constructed from a thicker-than-stock steel plate. This enables them to withstand the stress of high-stall torque converters and high-rpm engines. While factory stock plates tend to crack around the crankshaft hub when punished under high-torque and rpm conditions, the thicker Hays flexplates can handle the force. These heavy-duty flexplates are supplied with a ring gear that is securely welded in place. All Hays heavy-duty flexplates are zinc-dichromate plated to resist corrosion and SFI-certified under specification 29.1.
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$204.95
McLeod Flywheel Bolt Kits
Flywheel bolts play a very important role in the performance and safety of race cars and street machines alike. That's why McLeod offers flywheel bolt kits that are far superior to OEM hardware, so you can bolt in your flywheel with confidence. McLeqod steel bolt kits offer increased strength and improved flywheel register.
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$29.00
Eaton Detroit Lockers
Eaton Detroit lockers are designed to maximize traction by delivering 100 percent of the torque and power to both drive wheels. They are engineered to keep both wheels in a constant drive mode and have the ability to automatically allow wheel speed differentiation when required.
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$884.99
Timken Pinion Bearings
Timken pinion bearings offer durability and peace of mind. Known the world over, Timken bearings are precision-engineered to provide you with superior quality, along with energy-efficient and cost-effective friction management. For a proper fit that will run smoothly, these single-row tapered roller bearings are your best bet when replacing old and worn pinion bearings. Timken bearings are available for dozens of axle types; choose the models that match your vehicle specs.
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$16.99
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$41.99
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Moog Super Strength U-Joints
Moog Super Strength U-joints are precision-manufactured to exacting standards. They have forged and case-hardened alloy steel crosses and heat-treated needle bearings. Cold-formed radial bearing cups provide 360 degree lubrication distribution, while superior-quality seals and a grease fitting make for easy maintenance. In addition, the Super Strength U-joints have an exclusive microshield coating to protect against rust and corrosion. They are available in greasable and non-greasable styles for more than a dozen positions--in universal and vehicle-specific applications.
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$17.99
Yukon Gear & Axle Dura Grip Positraction Carriers
Yukon Gear & Axle Dura Grip positraction carriers offer great traction and strength, and yet are not overly aggressive for the streets. These nodular iron or steel replacements are 4-spring, Raybestos composite, clutch-style, limited-slip carriers—with internal gears machined from forged 4320 steel with stronger teeth. Assembled in the USA, the Yukon differential carriers are rebuildable, allowing for repairs or modifications without buying a new unit. They're available for fitment with nearly two dozen axle models. What are you using to transfer power? Choose smooth operation with strong lockup abilities to transfer torque—benchmarks of the Yukon Gear & Axle Dura Grip positraction carriers.
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$404.99
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$443.00
Richmond Gear Complete Ring and Pinion Installation Kits
Richmond Gear complete ring and pinion installation kits include Grade 8 ring gear bolts, bearings, seals, shims, marking compound, thread-locking compound, and silicone sealer. To ensure proper fitment, order the kit designed for your make/model application.
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$134.99
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$195.99
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