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Dan Williams Toploaders
Dan Williams Toploaders has been in business for over 40 years. Dan is the only employee and does all the work himself. Dan built his 5000th toploader a couple nights ago. I was gonna post this and forgot. I just got off the fone to Dan and I think he is going for 6000 now. I'll have to buy Dan a pile of that great banana pudding to celebrate from the Asian restaurant next time I'm in Franklin.
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Impossible to have a short phone call with Dan!.. Great guy. Likes to talk.
When I was buying parts from him he said he was almost to the 5000th, glad he made it. When I saw the title and saw the poster I was concerned you were going to say he had had passed away or went under. When I was rebuilding my transmission Dan was complaining about how Covid crap had made it very hard to get parts and how he had a pile of transmissions to rebuild but not enough parts to do it.
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If you think talking to him on the phone is long, don't go to his house/shop...unless you plan to stay the day. That guy has some stories to tell.
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if anyone ever needs a toploader 4 speed rebuilt Dan Williams is the best the transmission came back and it should be put on display it looks that good Dan is a great person to talk to and deal with
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Congratulations to Dan. Hell of a milestone. Back when output shafts were scarce as hen's teeth, he saved the day for me.
His website seems to on and off line. If you call him he'll send you a ton of info snail mail for free. He wouldn't sell me any falcon toploader stuff until I had his packet of info so I could be sure I had a falcon transmission. I've owned falcon by transmissions before so I knew I had the right tail housing but he insisted.
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Yeah, that’s what I’ve found. I always seem to catch it ‘off’ instead of ‘on’. I‘ll give him a call but I’ll have to clear my afternoon schedule first Lol
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Phone or in person...either one will take some time. More than an hour...likely. After 12PM only for either.
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Dan Williams has the most functional fone in the entire universe. His fone talks for hours non stop. Have your breakfast , lunch and supper ready before you call him.
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I shipped my top loader to Dan years ago, glad to be a part of the 5k. He hooked me up with a new case, correct tail shaft housing and fixed my sticky reverse issue. It's nice to fly through the gears with confidence. I bet he'd have made it to 6k by now if he spent less time on the phone. 😄 It was always a pleasure to talk to him and hear his stories though.
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