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Need to buy a new Powerglide what options do I want for a FED

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dreracecar:
I prefer the long glide because I am cheap and dont have to buy extra couplers and shafts and build a long driveshaft covering, a simple cover on the rear end and a male coupler on the trans and I am done. But this only works for engines out 39" to 42".
Running a shorty and a drive shaft will allow more mis-alignmed between the rear and the trans (if the case)because of the slop in all the componants. And because of all that, the slop has to be taken up at the hit before the car moves.
Someone needs to make the drive shaft dia match the shaft dia that comes out the glide. there is no need for the shafts to be any larger than that on the dragsters we run. 20 years of running a long glide (as mention above) and never broke a shaft

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