After blowing up my transmission a little over a year ago at the Arizona Bronco Stampede (Watch it here lol: https://youtu.be/zdV7EoZBbzY), I made the decision to go with a 700R4 Transmission. It was something that no one at WILD HORSES has done before, so my dad and I wanted to try something new. Gordon Bailie suggested the setup and was a big help in getting some kind of direction with this project.
The transmission itself would have been a fun enough project to tackle, but we decided to throw an Atlas into the mix just to make things slightly more complicated. On top of that, with Gordon's guidance, we hacked the mess out of the frame to clock the Atlas up for more ground clearance.
While this whole project was daunting at the beginning(the reason it took so long), after it was tackled and pieced in and tested and working as it should, I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. Sure, there's a bright orange crossmember underneath my rig, but that's just part of the fun haha
This video goes through all of the work...well, most of the work that it took to do this swap, so if that's something you're interested in, check it out!;D Feel free to ask any questions here or in the comments on YouTube. Thanks! Also, I'll post a few pictures!
https://youtu.be/URCxXdQwLTc
The transmission itself would have been a fun enough project to tackle, but we decided to throw an Atlas into the mix just to make things slightly more complicated. On top of that, with Gordon's guidance, we hacked the mess out of the frame to clock the Atlas up for more ground clearance.
While this whole project was daunting at the beginning(the reason it took so long), after it was tackled and pieced in and tested and working as it should, I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. Sure, there's a bright orange crossmember underneath my rig, but that's just part of the fun haha
This video goes through all of the work...well, most of the work that it took to do this swap, so if that's something you're interested in, check it out!;D Feel free to ask any questions here or in the comments on YouTube. Thanks! Also, I'll post a few pictures!
https://youtu.be/URCxXdQwLTc