Cable shift TF pan depth versus non TF pan depth?

[sloinker]

Somewhere along the line I acquired a fairly hefty chrome plated transmission pan. When I went to put it on my '64 cable shift big block TF it was too shallow. Hitting the filter. I re-used the beat up OE pan. My question being, are the later model TF transmissions different in their pan clearances than the old cable shifters or do I have some whack foreign built junk? The bolt pattern and build quality seem pretty good otherwise.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

The early TF have a rear pump, takes a different filter which fits in the stamped depression in the early pan... You don't want a chrome pan anyway... It'll probably leak....

 

[Dipstick]

Some of the early cable-shift transmissions used a screen instead of a filter. Pans designed for use with the screen won't clear the filter. Got a pic of the pan you tried to use?

 

[sloinker]