Re: Henry's 37 Limousine
Posted by Cli55er On 2016/10/28 9:36:31
new "fog" lights came in. WAY cheaper then unity setup and bigger. 7" the car had an original Packard fog light on it for the longest time, but i felt since i redid the wiring harness i would add a couple of newer, more useful lights. plus there was another Packard fog light on ebay recently for 300 bucks....for one....so gonna keep this one safe and put on the cheaps.
they are not "fog" lights persay becuase they have replacable H4 bulbs and flat euro lenses....basically headlights for like a t-bucket or something. but i like they way they look. I will be hooking them to a relay setup with a switch that will allow low beams to the left and high beams to the right.
i have a horrible time seeing at night....so on the rare occasion i need them, they will be very welcome.
I got the large pieces that didn't fit in my blast cabinet done at a local place, they turned out pretty good. I'll be taking the intake and the exhast manifold to the machine shope for decking.
started working on rebuilding the transmission. glad i painted it first as the grease just wipes right off after i'm done.
manual says to put in countershaft first...then reverse gear. well i did that until i forgot to put the needle bearings into the countershaft after i had already install the shaft for the reverse gear. i wasn't about to take that back out. so, if anyone is wondering...yes you can install the reverse gear first and then the countershaft....it matters not.
getting the bushings to stay in the case while i slow dropped in the countershaft merely required dabs of grease to hold them in place. have to line up those slots and it took a few tries, but i got it all in.
I had to use the same grease to hold the needle bearings in place as i had no arbor to hold everything while placing the countershaft and driving the long shaft it rides on into the transmission. it tooke about 2 hours....but i finally got everything lined up and the needle bearings in their place. the arbor would have speed things up alot i'm sure. so again...that is possible without the arbor....but it sucks.
i decided that the 2nd gear from the new trans having some bad spots on the ball bearings was just as bad as using the original 2nd gear from my old trans and the gears not being 100% lapped right. either way...its a weak spot...so i went with the old 2nd gear as it spun much smoother and made no noise. gonna use the synchromesh pack from the new trans though....it wasn't nearly as worn as the old one....less miles i'm sure.
i found out the true reason why 2nd gear was grinding so bad on the old trans....it wasn't really the synchromesh....it was the countershaft gear....can anyone see why.....the teeth were sitting in the bottom of the trans....probably not a good thing either lol!
if you have ever wondered what happened when you pushed on the synchromesh pack when it was out of the trans....well pretty much exactly what it says in the manual....balls and springs go flying. luckily they were easy to find. getting the pack back together wasn't that hard either...no special Packard tool need as described in the manual...just a piston installer. crank it down...and hit the inner gear with a hand of a rubber mallet....boom done.
crank will be .010/010 and pistons will be .030
studs are coming out fine with now problems so far....antijinx...
ordered enough parts from Kanter to help finance the restoration on the 52 limo they are doing.
this motor is gonna be sooooo sweet!
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they are not "fog" lights persay becuase they have replacable H4 bulbs and flat euro lenses....basically headlights for like a t-bucket or something. but i like they way they look. I will be hooking them to a relay setup with a switch that will allow low beams to the left and high beams to the right.
i have a horrible time seeing at night....so on the rare occasion i need them, they will be very welcome.
I got the large pieces that didn't fit in my blast cabinet done at a local place, they turned out pretty good. I'll be taking the intake and the exhast manifold to the machine shope for decking.
started working on rebuilding the transmission. glad i painted it first as the grease just wipes right off after i'm done.
manual says to put in countershaft first...then reverse gear. well i did that until i forgot to put the needle bearings into the countershaft after i had already install the shaft for the reverse gear. i wasn't about to take that back out. so, if anyone is wondering...yes you can install the reverse gear first and then the countershaft....it matters not.
getting the bushings to stay in the case while i slow dropped in the countershaft merely required dabs of grease to hold them in place. have to line up those slots and it took a few tries, but i got it all in.
I had to use the same grease to hold the needle bearings in place as i had no arbor to hold everything while placing the countershaft and driving the long shaft it rides on into the transmission. it tooke about 2 hours....but i finally got everything lined up and the needle bearings in their place. the arbor would have speed things up alot i'm sure. so again...that is possible without the arbor....but it sucks.
i decided that the 2nd gear from the new trans having some bad spots on the ball bearings was just as bad as using the original 2nd gear from my old trans and the gears not being 100% lapped right. either way...its a weak spot...so i went with the old 2nd gear as it spun much smoother and made no noise. gonna use the synchromesh pack from the new trans though....it wasn't nearly as worn as the old one....less miles i'm sure.
i found out the true reason why 2nd gear was grinding so bad on the old trans....it wasn't really the synchromesh....it was the countershaft gear....can anyone see why.....the teeth were sitting in the bottom of the trans....probably not a good thing either lol!
if you have ever wondered what happened when you pushed on the synchromesh pack when it was out of the trans....well pretty much exactly what it says in the manual....balls and springs go flying. luckily they were easy to find. getting the pack back together wasn't that hard either...no special Packard tool need as described in the manual...just a piston installer. crank it down...and hit the inner gear with a hand of a rubber mallet....boom done.
crank will be .010/010 and pistons will be .030
studs are coming out fine with now problems so far....antijinx...
ordered enough parts from Kanter to help finance the restoration on the 52 limo they are doing.
this motor is gonna be sooooo sweet!
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