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Here's a few places I was looking for a trans to have as a spare.
Then I learned I would have to buy a floor shifter (a good one is $300), maybe a
new torque convertor if the splines weren't the same as on the torque converter
I have now. I'm checking these sites as I go and I'll leave a link (if it
doesn't work use cut and paste).
Diamondback Engines. Mopar specialists. Used to sell everythig
Mopar including street/strip 727's and full race 727's that were aboutr
$2,400. Now they don't sell any 727 transmissions. Link to home
page: http://www.diamondbackengines.com/
A & A transmission sold 727's a few years back. Now all they have
is parts for a 727 and those parts are for 66 (or maybe 67) on up.
Link to home page: http://www.aandatrans.com/Departments/Chrysler-727-Trans.aspx
Hughes Performance (not to be confused with Hughes Engines) sells
torque converters and used to sell torqueflites. Now all they have is
parts, at least at Jeg's and they don't carry a lot of Mopar parts.
Hughes Page on Jeg's: http://www.jegs.com/vct/Hughes-Performance/512/1010529
Hughes Performance on their own site does sell torqueflites. Maybe
not the year you need. Here's the link: http://www.hughesperformance.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60&Itemid=62
There is a place in Canada that builds TF's from scratch and they are very
expensive. A lot of the parts are basically hand-made and fitted to each
trans. You may need your own core. A lot of places will build you a
trans of any year if you have your own car. Parts are still available
(except for shift and part cables, I think I got the last two from Imperial
Services last year). One shift cable, one part cable, one speedometer
cable: $529 just for the parts.
Imperial used to make a conversion kit to change a two-cable trans (66
& up) to a three cable trans. Now the guy who owns the place is in
disarray. He was a good man to do business and he had a lot of old
parts. Now he got cleaned out in a divorce, was forced to move his nice
warehouse to an old, leaking barn, his vendors have gone out of business and he
is in a holding pattern right now. He plans on getting new vendors to make
the speciality parts and not sell them through Imperial Services anymore.
He is going to farm them out to vendors, who will make 3 cables that cost $529
Cost $1,059.
Please post anything about 727 trans' you come across. If you have an
old core and good cables you are in business. If trying to buy an old 727,
you are at the mercy of the swap-meet people and you really don't know what you
are getting. It might have three cables coming out of it and could need
completely rebuilt. You'll have $2,000 in that with parts and labor.
It gets worse every day, but don't give up. The guys who race the old
NSS cars are good sources for old mopar parts for 727's if you know any of those
types. Usually they will do all they can to help you if they know
you. If they don't know you you might be out of luck because a lot
of guys are going to come to them in the near and distant future to scrounge
parts.
Don't let that bad news discourage you. Things will turn around and
you've alread got a trans, right? You are most of the way home.
Chick
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