Hope someone can shed some light. I have two transmissions laying around. I have a 40-48 style side shift trans and was told the gears will go into a top shift case. True? Other than the case, and the shifter top assembly.....what else needs to be changed to make it an open drive trans? Second trans is a 49-50 Merc side shift....totally different looking trans of course. Is there anything in that trans that will interchange with the older cases, or did they make a top shift trans case that will accept the internal assembly? Thanks in advance.
Look to Mac Van Pelt for answers......Van Pelt Sales.......he is a HAMB member An extremely knowledgeable Dude...
Okay, I remembered he posted on another thread and I found that thread. His ‘screen name’ is Mac VP If you go to the top of the page here, on the right you will see the symbols, flag like, the center one looks like an envelope......like an email symbol. Click on that and it takes you to the private message format (PM) page. You enter the info required in the spaces..i.e. subject or title.....”transmission help” for example. Enter...... Mac VP ......as the addressee and then fill in the message in the field provided. When finished with that, hit ‘send’ or ‘post’...whatever it says...... If/when he replies, you will see that ‘envelope flag’ in red, signifying you have a reply....click on it and it will open to that page. There will be your initial message and his reply. If you wish to respond, you do so just as you did with the first message.
Yes Vern has the books.....back in time the later 42-48 side shift's had a better range on thh gear set and would work into the earlier top shifting case - the problem is to find a nice early top shift case although they did use the top loader in Ford trucks until 1951....still hard to find a good case...
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