Re: '56 Patrician wont go into drive!

Posted by GrahamEbner On 2008/4/10 10:51:42

Ok here's the scoop..

Got to school at 6:00 this morning, unbolted the Dshaft, tied it up, pushed it to the shop. After some tweaking on the actuator mount, i got Reverse..for a minute. so we bolted the shaft back up, ( yeh i know we shoudl have had it bolted up while doing this ) and then no longer had reverse.

I can hear the actuator 'hunting' as described in the manual Mr.Pushbutton linked, but thought that was only helpful if the car would go into gear..?

So I do have neutral now, so we can push the car without undoing the drive-shaft. I''m planning on grabbing a trailer in the morning and bringing it home..

There is one thing thats confusing me. Actually, there are many, but this is the most notable. When i arrived at school on tuesday in the car, and then noticed i had no D gear or any other, i found a loose wire under the hood. It's a red wire coming from the cab, and it has a 'C' (?) terminal on the end. Like the ones that go onto the relays. I didn't have time to try and trace it, but it's not a powered wire ( used test light) so maybe that could be one problem? I don't remmber it having a white tracer, ( which the manual says is part of the L, D, and H circuit) but i could be mistaken.