Guess I can use the ignorance of youth as an excuse, but when I was 18 (1967), I had a '36 Chev pickup that would do 38 MPH before it floated the valves, so decided to put a 283 V8 in it. Had a Powerglide tranny. Got the engine in, got it started (would hardly turn over, finally decided it might help if I squirted some oil in the cylinders- it did!).
Hooking up the kick-down rod from the carb to the tranny had an interference problem- so I wisely decided to omit it. It only kicked the gear down, right? I could do that manually, right? So who needs it? Drove it about 3 weeks (that sucker could sure get sideways in a hurry!), and tranny quit. Told a mechanic about it, and he broke the news that the kick-down rod also adjusted the pressure in the tranny, and since I didn't have it, that's why the transmission went south.
Sold the whole outfit to my cousin for $250 in 1973, and as far as I know, its still sitting out behind his barn.
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