My 67 Chevelle 300

[DanStokes]

Re: My 67 Chevelle 300

Looking good, Pete. When you're done detailing yours you can come on over and tackle mine. This is the kind of stuff I just don't seem to get to.

Dan

[Thumpin455]

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Looks quite nice. I keep forgetting that we dont have to tear the car down completely to make it look good.. Must be due to having the pulled from a lake edition instead of something from the southwest to start with.

[fahrenschnell]

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Badass Dude......Looks good.

Seth

[CaminoKid]

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Pete,glad you took my advise on the inners and keep up the good work,no the great work it looks fantastic.

[Scott Liggett]

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Way to go!! It looks great, especially the engine. I'd keep the three on the tree. Maybe, look for an older 3 speed with an over drive from a pickup or car. I know my Dad's 56 210 had a three speed with overdrive. Much cheaper than a gear vendors. Hit the highway, put it in OD, sit back and hang the elbow out the window.

[67pete300]

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Thanks for all the encouragement. The project is going incredibly slow because of work and life, but I am making progress! And I'm motivated to get it running soon because I am moving in July which is coming up quickly!

Way to go!! It looks great, especially the engine. I'd keep the three on the tree. Maybe, look for an older 3 speed with an over drive from a pickup or car. I know my Dad's 56 210 had a three speed with overdrive. Much cheaper than a gear vendors. Hit the highway, put it in OD, sit back and hang the elbow out the window.

I dream of the three on the tree with a Gear Vendors unit. I think that would pretty much rule. But way too expensive. OD was actually an option on this car and in decoding it when I bought it originally, the engine code indicates it could have had one. But in reading about those old ODs, they sound pretty complicated to get wired up and operating properly. Plus they are impossible to find.

[Schtauffer]

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Lookin' good. Keep up the nice work!

Doing a little detailing under the hood of my 67 this winter, too!

[DanStokes]

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I don't remember OD's from that era. A bit earlier they were pretty common, though, and were VERY common in Ford products. I found an OD trans for my MG but that, of course, was a Brit thing. Not saying they didn't exist, just that I don't recall seeing one. That would be a cool option if you could scare one up.

Dan

[SpiderGearsMan]

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hone o drive

In the late 1960's, Fred Hone marketed and sold the Hone-O-Drive, an overdrive unit he had been developing for four years. Opening the Hone Manufacturing Company in Santa Fe Springs, California, Fred designed and built this self-contained, fully lubricated, 2-speed synchromesh planetary transmission that is manually shifted from 1:1 Direct Drive to a 1.43:1 (or 1.47:1, depending on which article you read) Overdrive. This effectively changed a car with a 4.11 rear axle ratio into one with a 2.87 ratio. Engagement/disengagement is supposed to be available at any time with no neutral or freewheeling. You just ease off the throttle for a moment, to lighten the drivetrain load, and then move the shift lever.
The Hone-O-Drive case is aircraft-grade, heat-treated 356T6 cast aluminum, while the gears are heat-treated, high quality steel with helical teeth to minimize noise. Shafts are of special steel with heavy-duty splines. The basic Hone-O-Drive is 17 inches in length and 6 1/4 inches in diameter.
odels. The Model 100 was designed to fit onto the front of a Ford 8" differential housing, bolting in place of the front pinion bearing support. The Model 200 was designed to fit the Ford 9" differential. The Model 300 was a "universal fit" model to fit everything else. It is basically a separate unit that mounts in the driveshaft tunnel of the car
and is coupled to the transmission yoke on one end and to a driveshaft on the other. This way the unit will fit all makes and models as well as manual or automatic transmissions. It is the Model 300 unit that was used optionally in the Baldwin Motion Chevolets and by many motorhome companies.
It appears that the Model 300 was sold as a kit for many applications that included a rubber-bushed mounting bracket and shortened driveshaft.
This unit has not been made for about 30 years, so they are rare and hard to find.

[67pete300]

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The optional OD manual was a Saginaw 3 speed (like mine) with an add on 0.7 gear that could be engaged from any gear. You engaged it on the dash and there were some fairly complicated solenoids and things to disengage the OD if you let off the gas.

I'll dig up some of the literature I have.

[CTX-SLPR]

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Pickup a HR Deluxe from around a year ago (or PM Brad Ocock, Brad54) on doing it with 3 and 4spd Saginaw boxes.

[67pete300]

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Got some fantastic weather and timely help from the neighbor yesterday.

Ready to receive: (Note original trans still in place throughout the whole project. And lack of puddles under the car.)


Engine ready to stab it:




First attempt:



Negative progress:



Should have just pulled it from the very beginning:



Here's the problem. Look at the flywheel and the freeze plug in the back of the block (new engine and old).




The "new" engine (and flywheel) came out of a 74 C10 pickup. The flywheel is much bigger than the one in my Chevelle and doesn't fit in the Chevelle bellhousing. But the "new" flywheel has a new gear and is resurfaced. The old flywheel chatters like a son of a...

Luckily for me I got the C10 3sp tranny with the engine and it has been laying around the garage untouched. Time for a quick bellhousing swap. (Plus trip #3 to the parts store to get a new transmission mount to replace the 40 year old one destroyed in the process.)





Thank goodness for daylight savings time, but it still wasn't enough. Note trans fluid spill #18. The people at Autozone looked at me like I had 5 heads when I asked if they have one of those plugs for the back of the trans to keep the fluid in.





Success:



Pink bikes and car parts, the story of my garage:


The car spent the night in the garage because the driveshaft is not in the back of the trans yet. Should get that fixed up today and can resume assembly. And fix all the scratches and dings in all the newly painted stuff.

[67pete300]

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I figure with that big flywheel I can do some wicked one-legged burnouts when I get it running...but I won't be winding her up to 6k! :

[67pete300]

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I also forgot to tell the part where I got the neighbor in trouble for being late to his wife's ultrasound appointment (it's a boy!) and being late for dinner after he got back from the ultrasound. I owe him big time!

[JOES66FURY]

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^^^ I have been that dude, not for an ultrasound but for other things..I was wrenching on a buddys car and it was supposed to be a quick brake job and turned into a 4 wheel brake overhaul and replacement of the CV joints....I was in the dog house for weeks...AND I didnt get anything for the help, no beer, no pizza, no pay...A case of beer would have made sleeping in the dog house a little more tolerable...you know what I mean?