Tired iron Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 Hey all, I have meadowbrook with fluid drive in front of the 3 speed transmission. My tranny was so bad it wasn't even worth rebuilding. I found another tranny in great shape but it was set up for a conventional clutch, not fluid drive. I searched this forum and others for answers to if and how to adapt my new transmission to accept a fluid drive. There were lots of opinions but not definite answers. So, now that I have accomplished this task, I thought I'd mention it here on the forum for others in the future who might be trying to figure this out The input shaft on for the fd set up is quite a bit longer than for a regular clutch, this is due to the thickness of the fd torque converter. As is the front bearing retainer. That's the bad news. The good news is that everything else in the transmissions are the same. So, All you need to do is obtain the right input shaft and snout for your desired application. So in my situation all I had to do was take off the input shaft and bearing retainer from the old bad fluid drive tranny and put it on the new transmission. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcDeSoto Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 Wow. Never thought it would be that easy. Good job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tired iron Posted June 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 Thanks. But, to be clear, changing the input shaft requires taking the transmission apart and dropping the layshaft and cluster gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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