Thank you for the info. I will contact them.

We have a '55 Clipper Custom that the Speedo needle fell off of. Does anyone have a needle or know where I might get one? How is it secured to the shaft? Thank you for any help.

Ross, thank you. This gets started today. I was hoping that it "might be" the linkage. Worse case where is a trans rebuilder in relation to West Texas that I takes transmission shipped in?

Thank you.

Just started this last week that the transmission will not out of park without rocking the car back and forth. Is this a possible problem with the park detent internal to the trans?

Any ideas? All help appreciated.

Steward, just a quick question or 2: 1. are you striving to maintain the original, true to factory as possible?

2. Is your electrical system still positive ground?

3. If you cannot find the pieces that you need would you consider using a pertronix ignition inside your distributor? If so I have one, it is used. We switched to positive ground and installed a new pertronix in out '55.

Just food for thought.

Owen, thank you for the reminder. I am a member so I will look there.

Owen, yes the spindle is damaged and I have access to a complete front brake assembly from a senior car. I will get the prints, thank you.

I just spoke with JD at Max and he has answered the question by cross checking the parts. The only difference between the senior and clipper spindle/knuckle assemblies is the clipper spindle is smaller but the knuckles are the same including the pin.

I must say that the people at Kanter's and Max Merritt have been great support.

Owen, do you have a contact point for the Proving Grounds?

Thank you very much.

As for the why of my question is because we had a bearing failure. The Clipper has 20k miles and we are going through all of the "systems" to bring them upto a level of dependability.

Is it possible, without further modification, to replace the Clipper spindles with the Exec spindles? Or where may I obtain the specs of the Clipper & Exec spindles to see what needs to be done? I have looked "here" at the docs that are online but drew a blank.

I appreciate any help.

I have a question about replacing the spindles on a '55 Clipper Custom w/PS with the spindles from the Exec models.
This auto has torsion suspension. The bearing sizes for the Exec class are larger and the spindles should be stronger than the Clipper spindles but as I do not have access to the dimensional data for the knuckle/spindle mounting points, it is hard to say what will fit or not.

Can anyone help? Thank you.

Stewart, what you have come to understand is the basic secret of everything mechanical, it is really very simple. Added to this is: the right tools make any job easy and if you do not know - ASK. I used to rebuild nuclear warheads for a living (military). They are no different. Just relax and enjoy your hobby. We are redoing my wife's '55 Clipper Custom as a daily driver so we look at things differently than a restoration. We live 100 miles from the nearest grocery.