Hot Rods LIVE WIRE Gets a transplant PT.2 Goodbye LaSalle..

Yeah that was the aftermath of the trans flood of 2012...hahahaha I was sure it was all drained..

 

Sheets of cardboard......those are called Carolina Creepers.

 

Exciting!

 

With a hearty pool of trans juice, the might Hydro says good bye... A friened of mine locally here spent the better part of a lifetime one year trying to make his genuine B&M Hydro work...

 

I thought they were *** offenders? Oh, a 'red-neck deal', got ya 10-4.

 

Way cool Piero! Live Wire back on the road soon= ****ing awesome!!!

 

Day 2 - Cleaned up the fly wheel, went and bought some bolts, did a few things on the trans and bolted that **** together....



Thursday we start thinking about pedal mounts and trans mount... its gonna get good!!!

 

The new home looks great.

We should start a pool to see how long that '39 box lasts.

 

Be careful on Torquing those bolts to the aluminum adapter. They like to strip really easy. If I were to do it again, I think I'd use TIMESERTS on every hole since I have them in almost half already. Shoulda checked the threads before mating I know I know....

I still have one that's stripped but I refuse to take the trans out once again....especially since I have a torque tube. I'm gonna try and throw a Metric bolt in there and see if it bites.

Exciting stuff though for sure!!! Keep at it man.

 

Hey Piero Ventura Nationals is right around the corner, move it! Looks good .

 

I thought they were called lawn creepers. They really work great for gravel and Cheet gr*** too.

 

Bleh....shiftin is for ****ERS.

 

Subscribing.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

I just put up the Hydro in the cl***ifides if anyone needs a rebuilt Hydramatic for there caddy...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=721857

 

So yesterday we made some progress.. I cleaned all the wires and fuel lines around the brake mount and ended up cutting that hole ****er off.. Good bye 1 pedal.. time for 2!!

Mean while Lucky started to fab up the new cossmember / Trans mount / brake and Pedal mount... Heres some shot of the top / first piece being fitted... Its gonna be pretty sweet...

Next week we are gonna work late!! so i'll have more updates as I get them...

Thanks to Lucky for all your help!!

 

What problems were you having with the hydro?

 

The Hydro is actually good.. It was more about adjustments and getting it shift right with my carb set up.. Couldn't do things like adjust the belts either with that set up... Overall I didn't like it...to much adjusting ****.. But the trans is good there was no weird shavingings in the oil etc.. low milage on the rebuild..

 

Lucky ********* my Crossmember he's building...

Theres been a slight change.. Lucky talked me out of the Chrome pedals cause he has to bend them all to ****.. so I picked up some 35 pedals that are goona do the trick!!!

More tomorrow...

 

Looking good Piero! Those 3 speeds are fun with a lil power in front of them.

 

back at it!!

Luckys not sleeping he's working hard on my cross member..


Break bracket..


Making the plate for the pedals..


Looks somthing like this... getting there...

 

and your gonna stop !!!! what is next !!!! ... you still thinking about ventura ?

call me if you need help I aint going to bonneville.

 

Thats where we are at now.. More maybe tomorrow..??

This is the hardest part of doing this swap is making eveything mount right.. the 35 pedals mount on the "K" of the member and is in a weird angle so Lucky has to figure piece by piece so everything clears right.. its gonna be a pretty impressive piece... It will also bolt on to the frame so it will be removable for those easy trans repairs...

 

Dude's got some great talent and patience.

 

Smart move! great Fab work and forward thinking on Lucky's behalf.

 

We all want to see that thing drive!.............keep goin!

 

progress!! keep up the good work!!

 

Gotcha. I was just curious... I have an old race Hydro that I want to put in our current project and I was hoping you weren't going to tell me some horror story about it breaking down.

 

way to go !!!

 

Lucky put in some hours welding on Friday.. He's got a few more hours and then its ready to mount... It will bolt in for EZ access..

This is the bottom of it that will be covered with a plate as well..You can see the 35 pedals attached on the right.. (upside down) More soon!!


V8.. this is the top...

 

That looks *****en Piero, very nice!!