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My other rigs keep demanding my attention, breaking something or needing adjustment....
But I got both trucks, the 55 4x, and the 58 pro street; and the 55 gasser, all running again...
YaHoo....
Now to work on the 55 Sport Coupe and the panheads for awhile...
Put a 1350 pinion yoke on the rear end, and measured the old driveshaft from the gasser to be shortened. Sent it to Strange, they will put on a front 1350 trans yoke for the GM T56, and cut and weld on a new 1350 rear yoke to fit the pinion yoke.
Then pulled the motor/tranny out so I could finish welding the motor mounts in, do some mods on the firewall to provide more clearance for the valve covers, cleaning smoothing and painting.
Yesterday pulled the T56 apart and swapped out the main shifter shaft for a modified shifter shaft from Keisler Engineering that I've had around for awhile. The new forward position of the shifter will clear the bench seat in my '55.
Wrote it up and it is here (Link) if you want a look...
Some highlights:
Pulled the rear tailshaft housing off, it also houses the reverse gear set and the 5th and 6th gear sets...
Removed all the gears in this portion of the case, reverse, 6th and 5th, then pulled the main gear case off the front trans plate:
One of the guys in our crew hauled home that "Wombat" sign from a recent trip "down under", no we don't have wombats on Maui....
You can see the long shifter shaft, it runs the full length of the gearbox. I pulled it out and installed the modified shaft I got from Keisler Engineering, which splits the shaft in half at the appropriate spot under the forward case inspection hole, and puts a piece of hardware in that will accept a new shifter and operate all six gears and reverse properly...
Unfortunately I forgot to take a pix of that modification Keisler did to the replacement shaft, will look for something I can find to show it.
The truth is, I misplaced the new shaft, and we were going nuts trying to find it so we could finish the job, I finally did find it, and it was getting late, so we buttoned everything back up and then realized we forgot to photo it !!
Stuck this short shift lever on it to check it out, it shifts good, hits all the gears it is supposed to. I'll find a nice curved shift lever to use in the '55....
Actually, that original main shifter shaft could be modified to the forward position if you had that piece that goes in that location to match up the two halves of the shaft after it is cut and a piece removed.
Now to figure out where to cut the hole in the floor for this shifter....
Aloha,
Willy
But I got both trucks, the 55 4x, and the 58 pro street; and the 55 gasser, all running again...
YaHoo....
Now to work on the 55 Sport Coupe and the panheads for awhile...
Put a 1350 pinion yoke on the rear end, and measured the old driveshaft from the gasser to be shortened. Sent it to Strange, they will put on a front 1350 trans yoke for the GM T56, and cut and weld on a new 1350 rear yoke to fit the pinion yoke.
Then pulled the motor/tranny out so I could finish welding the motor mounts in, do some mods on the firewall to provide more clearance for the valve covers, cleaning smoothing and painting.
Yesterday pulled the T56 apart and swapped out the main shifter shaft for a modified shifter shaft from Keisler Engineering that I've had around for awhile. The new forward position of the shifter will clear the bench seat in my '55.
Wrote it up and it is here (Link) if you want a look...
Some highlights:
Pulled the rear tailshaft housing off, it also houses the reverse gear set and the 5th and 6th gear sets...
Removed all the gears in this portion of the case, reverse, 6th and 5th, then pulled the main gear case off the front trans plate:
One of the guys in our crew hauled home that "Wombat" sign from a recent trip "down under", no we don't have wombats on Maui....
You can see the long shifter shaft, it runs the full length of the gearbox. I pulled it out and installed the modified shaft I got from Keisler Engineering, which splits the shaft in half at the appropriate spot under the forward case inspection hole, and puts a piece of hardware in that will accept a new shifter and operate all six gears and reverse properly...
Unfortunately I forgot to take a pix of that modification Keisler did to the replacement shaft, will look for something I can find to show it.
The truth is, I misplaced the new shaft, and we were going nuts trying to find it so we could finish the job, I finally did find it, and it was getting late, so we buttoned everything back up and then realized we forgot to photo it !!
Stuck this short shift lever on it to check it out, it shifts good, hits all the gears it is supposed to. I'll find a nice curved shift lever to use in the '55....
Actually, that original main shifter shaft could be modified to the forward position if you had that piece that goes in that location to match up the two halves of the shaft after it is cut and a piece removed.
Now to figure out where to cut the hole in the floor for this shifter....
Aloha,
Willy