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Those who are familiar with us know that we also rebuild early Ford standard transmissions. We learned years ago that the original Ford fasteners...
Janius……you might get better advice on this question if you can tell us more. You might possibly get bad advice if everyone misunderstands your...
The 49-53 flywheel bolt holes for the pressure plate were drilled all the way through the flywheel….you can easily see the holes from both sides....
Check out the upper portion of the coil…..the domed part. If you see any cracks whatsoever, that particular coil is toast and has no core value....
I built my first version in the mid 1960’s by myself. I had already built many models….mostly 1/24 scale, so I wasn’t a novice. However, by the...
Looks like something got caught in the gear teeth of the main drive gear….the image shows some heavy damage to the gear teeth. There may also be...
The Henry Ford Museum could possibly be toured in one day…..assuming you didn’t stop and look for long at anything. I suppose it would be a good...
To address the question of the condition of this freewheel cam, the photos of the two parts show two things. The inner hub appears to be in pretty...
Try to keep the freewheel cam assembly together as you separate it and handle it. Although it’s more difficult to clean when assembled, it can be...
At the moment we probably have 3-4 nice good used planetary gears in stock, and plenty of nice used sun gears. It’s impossible to tell from the...
The simple answer is…..almost certainly not. The transmission in the photo is from the 1953-62 variety as used in the F-100 pickups. It is Ford’s...
Don’t forget the Packard museum in Dayton, Ohio. It’s in an original old Packard dealership building, so the dealer showroom and the service area...
I want to stock wire bullet connectors for some of the vintage Ford applications we deal in. The original bullet connectors were crimped to the...
The 59T-7006 casting number confirms that this is definitely the non-synchro truck 4 speed spur gear transmission. The removable hogs head adapter...
Don’t know how important this detail is but the boss on the shifter housing (side cover of the transmission) sticks out a bit further on the 1951...
Pretty sure I see two cracks in the front bearing retainer opening, plus the major chunk of casting broken off one of the bolt holes for the...
Without machine shop receipts specifying the work done, and receipts for parts purchased, it’s just a core motor. Even if the motor had been run...
If you’re inspecting a typical Ford toploader 3 speed transmission, which happens to be the closed drive configuration for a torque tube...
We’re asked this question frequently. The original spec for the Ford overdrive transmissions was 90 weight gear oil and the GL-1 specification was...
The 2nd gear with the oil slots on the back face would be normally used with the 81A type mainshaft. The 2nd gear with the smooth rear facing is...
The 81A-7061 mainshaft has the pin and needs the 81A-7071 spacing washer (which butts up against the backside of the 81A-7102 second gear. If you...
We watched the first episode. We like Tim Allen and were hoping to see a bit more car stuff going on, but we were somewhat disappointed with the...
Good advice from the folks here. I can tell you that using the early Ford V8 transmission (32-39 types) is apparently okay with the TROG group as...
We created the kit…..it’s basically the group of parts involved: crab cap + crab rotor + the pair of wire side clips that secure the cap to the...
The BW overdrive transmissions should run a 90 weight gear oil. The common GL-4 oil spec is getting harder to find these days. You can run the...
In the transmission business the term “Main Drive Gear” refers to the input shaft/gear at the front of the transmission. The term “Mainshaft” or...
That’s controlled by two things…..first would be the unique snap ring located just in front of the intermediate ball bearing. The advice given...
We only use a dummy shaft now for pushing the factory countershaft pin out of the case during disassembly…..this helps keep the needle bearings in...
They were made with and without the pocket for a replaceable front oil seal. I know we’ve got some without the pocket but not sure if we’ve got...
Squirrel is correct…..it’s a typical 1939 style gearset with the late type synchro assembly. The one in the first photo is shifted into high gear....
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