ive got a 94 non sho taurus, I have pulled the heads off, i havent pulled the tranny, but it can't be much harder than the fwd tranny was in spookis car..... it been swapped twice. gets quicker and quicker every time
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as far as working on one, you have to get in the mindset of having to deal with all of that electronic crap. (your friend). its a tight fit to work on, but my big self has done it with out to much trouble.... get a code reader, actually a scanner is better, as you can moniter real time functions..... i'd like to put a sho on a tbird or couger tranny and drop that in a 'coupe or a bucket....
and the tranny is the weakest link in the sho drive train, 4Jaw had a good thread on awhile back, where he had found a website that had a bunch of mods listed to do to the tranny to beef it up.....