I don't know what you are really wanting to wind up with but years ago (early 60s) a kid in our neighborhood traded a summers worth of yard mowing for a 52/54 Packard 4 door with a ultramatic in it that had no low range but he was driving it. My Dad told him that was one of the toughest transmissions ever built at that time, and to check the trans fluid it might be low. Never found a dip stick pulled a plug on the side of the case and filled like a manual trans. using regular trans fluid and low gear started working. The next thing I knew he was drag racing it doing high RPM ( for it) neutral drops he kept messing with it and got it turning in the High 16s. Which was fairly fast for a street car back then. Never did blow the trans but finally tore the rear end out and sold it for junk.
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