He's not going as far as I plan to, mine will be floored like a flat panel but taking into account the need for an air gap across the down-stream side of the evaporator.

All will come clear presently...

* At this point - Pearl Harbor Day 2011 - another truckload of untimely snow is on the ground here in the Memphis TN area, a thing I think has never happened at this time of the year before. Al Gore is not only totally full of it on the Global Warming stuff -the place is measurably fooking cooler at this point, from all that I can can see around me just now...

 

That's from all the melted sea ice. Check with your old submariner buddies.

 

This ain't a Dirk Pitt novel. I keep a 60 watt bulb under Rufus's house for this weather.

It heats the plywood floor of his coop (unless it goes out)

11dec011 ~ Slowly goin' nutz...

20 Dec 2011 ~
Nope, it won't fit with the tranny on it.
I tried, and tried, and tr....

 

I don't know why it should be - but AOD tranny mounts have studs on the bottom that are approx. 1/2 inch closer together than the smaller Ranger (0.25 ton) transmanglebox...

I was hassling with it since about 0530. Naturally my die grinder is a cheap house brand from a hardware store that shall remain nameless so I ended up spending quality time with a rat-tail file

Oddly enough I think the ubiquitous "Extra Crossmember" will turn out to be useful; it helps support the gearbox while the engine is out

* at this point I feel a huge compulsion to just get this son of an assembly line set into the truck and forget about all the yippy-skippy nice stuff.

 

And I thought you were building a "T" like mine?

Anyhow.....Good luck with your build!

 

Bruce that a very nice T-Bucket.

 

Thanks!
I built it back in the 70's.

 

I have an uncle that built a chevy 3 window coupe in 73 still has it and it is stil the same paint that was put on in 73 just has different wheels and different interior.327 motor and a munci transmission.It is a very good looking car for when it was built.Your back tires look like what he has on his.

 

I wish I coulda stored in my brain all the crap I heard about "Muncie" Indiana transmissions from back in the day.

There was a lot, good and bad

 

*I have a lot of trouble with my connect lately - If I drop out it isn't from lack of interest

My computer is the digital equivalent of about a 1949 roadster at this point......

 

Howdee Wolfie..... How's the project coming along?

 

(before this sucker drops out again!)

I think I can adapt a "TK" tranny mount to an AOD trans.

If that works - I'll have backed off and PUNTED!!!

The slots for an AOD tranny mount (into the crossmember) are closer than for a Toyo Kogyo 5-speed

My reasoning is that if the bolts (TO THE TRANSMISSION) are the same, it doesn't matter what mount I use.


*** Okay - so maybe I end up replacing:
1) U-Joints
2) Serpentine Belts
3) Tires
4) The FOOKIN' trans mount....


All at the same time?

It would be FUN wouldn't it?


~ something tells me this is a bad idea, but I don't care...

~yippee kye aye!!!~

What I'm looking at specifically is using a four cylinder FIVE speed mount under an AOD with a 351W in front of it.

I dunno -

It may hold

I've never compared the two mounts.


Aaw crud - this means more pictures!

 

Should work. If it bolts to the trans, good to go.... Just be nice to it until you know you can trust it

 

I'm about to bust out and get some parts put in!

I got a refi that will gimmee a lot of extra bux - and some other windfalls.

(You know what that's all about! TAX RETURNS... Ooh my, my...)

I expecx to be talkin' at the 'Shep real soon....

 

Yeah, but this year I won't be getting one. That is not a good thing when you add to the fact I plowed NO snow this year..... The cookie jar runith dry, lol