[DeTomaso] MANGUSTA ZF FLUID / Dick Ruzzin

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

I'd very much like to see what it looks like. I rebuilt my dash-1 using
the dash-2/dash-nothing manual and tried to apply what I thought fit
from the two sections as I found appropriate. Does anyone have a photo
of the cover?
 
Tomas

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From: MikeLDrew at aol.com [MikeLDrew at aol.com]
Sent: 11/9/2009 10:50:52 AM
To: guson at home.se; Detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] MANGUSTA ZF FLUID / Dick Ruzzin

In a message dated 9/11/09 0 40 20, guson at home.se writes:


> Jack provided me with exploded view parts drawings for the dash-1 in
the 
> same style as the ZF manual so maybe there is a dash-1 manual out
there 
> like the one we're used to seeing but so far I haven't seen it.
> 

In the past few days I have heard repeated references to the Dash-1
manual 
from people who actually own it. Apparently the gearbox in the manual is
oriented in the GT40/Mangusta style, as opposed to the later Pantera
style.

The early Panteras came with Dash-1 transaxles; for the most part, these
were Mangusta transaxles that De Tomaso already had sitting on the
shelf, that 
were returned to ZF in Germany, and modified for use in the Pantera
until 
the new Dash-2 units were ready for production. They were done in
different 
series, small batches of 30 here, 40 there, each of which had slight
detail 
differences, different part numbers, different internal gear ratios etc.
Although the Ford parts book only lists a handful of varients, I have a
stack 
of internal memorandums between Ford, ZF and De Tomaso in which the
details 
of the program are spelled out; some gearbox varients were made in 
quantities of less than 10 units at first...

Mike
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