Awesome, thank you Howard!

Hello, I have a '55 400 that I'm putting back together and neglected to take pictures of the transmission line routing and clipping points. Can someone please sent me a picture of theirs? I assume one goes on the bell housing and the other goes on one of the oil pan bolts. My lines got a little bent out of shape when I pulled and reinstalled the engine, so it's not really intuitive which clip goes where and how it should be oriented. Also, I removed the power steering pump and forgot to mark which power steering line goes to which port, does anyone have an answer for this also? I took some pictures before I took the engine out and upon reviewing them now they're pretty useless, lol.

Thanks in advance, I appreciate the help!
-Chris

Wow thanks everyone for the info! So I put the car up on jack stands tonight for the first time to take a good look at it...when I bought the car I wiggled underneath to see as much as I could without a jack and assumed the control box was missing since there were wires dangling where I knew it should be and the leveling system didn't work. I feel like an idiot now since it looks like the box is there (picture below) and it's just not hooked up. When I bought the car the battery was hooked up as negative ground and I've since hooked it up to positive ground (I was surprised the engine ran and either way). I wonder if a previous owner damaged the box hooking it up the wrong way. As far as the manual override switch it seems like it's a cable that goes into the back of the dash? (Picture below of black cable). I'll have to investigate further tomorrow but thanks again for the help!

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Hi guys, I bought a '55 400 recently and just now starting to get serious about getting it on the road. I discovered that my TL control box is missing, but the TL motor is there. I see a toggle switch and an adjustment knob under the dash, which I assume is the manual override for the leveling system. My question is this: is there a way to rig up the leveling system motor to the manual override knob without needing the control box? If so, is there a safety mechanism that will prevent raising or lowering past certain limits? I noticed there is a '56 solid state control box on Ebay for a decent price. What are the wiring changes to adapt a '56 control box to a '55 and what exactly does the 'solid state' conversion mean? Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky and find the control box in the glove box whenever I get around to picking the lock (don't have the trunk/glove box key). I apologize for the rambling questions, I appreciate any advice.

-Newbie trying to learn as much as possible