and while you're collecting your thoughts to respond to the missing part inside the transmission ... consider this - there are 4 bolts on the top of the transmission. All are in the same spot until I go to put it back together... now one has been changed for another bolt.... there is no one in the shop and the mice died long ago.... probably I'm just seeing the spooky action at a distance - and to think, they made a huge collider in Switzerland to prove what I just did in my shop.
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good news is it was a Hummer transmission.... means I can replace it with a brand new part for pretty cheap... how cheap - $200 for a high mile, $1500 for brand new..... time to argue .... errr.... negotiate with a wrecking yard.
I know, I know, why don't I just find the bolt that's floating around inside:
1) it's a 'special' bolt meaning no one seems to make it
2) it's probably stuck to a magnet inside the case - and I have enough trouble already without that gremlin popping up at the worst possible moment
3) the synchros were marginal from the beginning
and.... having spare parts about (an entire transmission) is good practice (especially when they're dirt cheap)Doing it all wrong since 1966
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Originally posted by SuperBuickGuy View Postso I didn't get much done today. beside picking up the Land Rover, installing a new microwave, and installing a drain on a water container the '40 got ignored....ish
seat base
I'm going to remove the electronics and simply use a key.
but of course to install that I need to take advantage of unexpected nice weather and haul the shell to get sand blasted
and pull the transmission from the frame so I can do some finish work on the clutch, etc
pull the tailshaft off
nothing looks broken
basically I need to hone out the seal area a bit more to get a seal installed
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Sorry for inserting a like subject in your story.
It took 3 posts to get the little bit of the Timber Cruiser's upgrades as I live in the Iron Triangle of Area BFE of Wisconsin. And phone, internet service is sketchy.
I can share these with you thru a PM in the future.
Again, please accept my apology
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Originally posted by Captain View PostSorry for inserting a like subject in your story.
It took 3 posts to get the little bit of the Timber Cruiser's upgrades as I live in the Iron Triangle of Area BFE of Wisconsin. And phone, internet service is sketchy.
I can share these with you thru a PM in the future.
Again, please accept my apologyLast edited by SuperBuickGuy; March 19, 2020, 05:27 PM.Doing it all wrong since 1966
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brace
and it's out
with water draining from it....
blow the new trans apart
yep, there was water
water problem solved
oh look, the missing bolt
it takes grinding to adapt the front trans... or simply swap the already fixed one
and put the 'old' housing on
and clean and put the front on... the cordless milwaukie die grinder works awesome for this
new ready to install
installed
a bunch of fixes... for example, I didn't have a lathe when I built this.... now I do, now I can square it
maybe 20 thou off? not terrible
visual representation
much closer... tomorrow I'll finish that up
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