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Good day, just had my 1959 F-100 serviced and had the following identified as needing repairs or replacements.
If anyone can give me a little bit of guidance on these items it would be much appreciated, I do have some limited skills with tools and time on my hands, thanks
Leaking
Transmission Seal (output)
Rear Differential
Front Shocks - will renew
Where fuel pump attaches to block
looks like I’ll be doing the throw out bearing as well. Would appreciate some guidance here as the rest I’ve pretty much put together a cheat sheet of suggestions and YouTube instructions. Thanks in advance
Tranny seal not hard to do. Pull the drive shaft and then pry out the old seal being careful not to scratch the tranny housing. Put a light coating of tranny fluid on the new seal and tap it back in to the depth where the old one was. You can use a piece of pipe and a hammer to put the seal in if you don't have a seal driver.
What about the rear differential?
Fuel pump just has a gasket between it and the block. Pull the pump, clean off the gasket mounting surface of the pump and the block and then reinstall with new gasket. It might make it easier to put some gasket sealer on one surface or the other to hold the gasket in place while you mount the pump. If you have any rubber hose in the gas line before it reaches the fuel pump, you can use a rag and a pair of vise grips to prevent the gas tank from running out on the ground while you work.
By the way, you don't see many trucks with the spare mounted in the bed anymore. Kind of a cool look in my view. I mean, that is where Henry often put them!! lol
Thank you for the quick response. I did a little YouTube watching as well and the tranny seal doesn't seem to much. The rear differential is also leaking so I purchased a pinion seal which I will replace when I pull the drive shaft. I have replaced the fuel pump before but will use your tip for the sealer to hold in place. I don't believe this has any rubber in the fuel line. Lastly, this truck has been in my wife's family since 1959 when her grandfather bought it new for the farm in Iowa. We got it in 2001 after it sat in the corn crib for about eight years. I can do most of the mechanical as it's not electronic but as to the spare tire when I had body work done I noticed that the left rear wheel cover in the bed had an indentation for the tire but no place to mount it so I asked the person who did the body work and paint to add a stud there to mount the spare. Agree that it looks cool but TBH this is the family "work truck" and when you see it up close you immediately recognize that. I just need to keep her from losing fluids. Thanks again for the guidance
Good day all, I recently renewed the pinion seal and the "gear box" seal on my 59F100. During the gear box seal replacement I loosened the four bolt which hold the rear part of the gear box from the forward end and in doing so have now lost the ability to put the truck in 2nd or 3rd or Reverse. I am hoping to disconnect the forward and reverse arms on the left side of the gear box and remove the forward part of the gear box next so that I can see the issue in the rear part where the alignment is for the forward and reverse gears. What I am hoping some of you might have is an exploded diagram of the gear box so that I'm know where the trouble is. Here are two pictures of what I'm referring to, you will note the red Permatex on the rear part of the gear box as the gasket was trashed and I could not fit another gasket around the face due to the fact that there is a larger gear inside the forward part of the gear box and will not allow total separation of the two sections. As always thanks in advance, this site keeps my brides 59 running despite my poor efforts.
Thank you for the good information but my ford has a light duty transmission and you will note that the housing extension isn't consistent with my gear box.
I am hoping that the gearing is the same and that the exploded view will guide me on where the gear shift housing forks belong.
I'm also standing by for any additional intel that some of the readers may offer as I do see lots of 59's posted.
The drive shaft looks like it might be a bit short. I remember having that issue with mine and a new driveshaft, measured according to the driveline shop's instructions fixed it.
Thank you for the good information but my ford has a light duty transmission and you will note that the housing extension isn't consistent with my gear box.
I am hoping that the gearing is the same and that the exploded view will guide me on where the gear shift housing forks belong.
I'm also standing by for any additional intel that some of the readers may offer as I do see lots of 59's posted.
If you take another look at the pic, you will see it is covering two types of trannys. I believe that directly in the center top of the page, they show your tail piece. The image towards the upper right is for another type.
Thank you for that, I will print it out and use it as a guide. My plan now is to remove the side panel where the two shift arms are located. Once I can see inside I may be able to find the problem. As of now I cannot get the truck into neutral, second or third or reverse. Once I get it open I'm going to lift the rear so that if I can turn the rear wheels then I'll know I've found neutral and will go on from there.
I try to knock off all the dirt and grime on each part I work on, eventually the engine should be somewhat clean as it sat in the corn crib for about 8 years before we got it so there's all kinds of animal and other debris.
Well I found three inserts and 9 pins/rollers when I opened up the side panel of the gear box. At that point I removed the whole piece so I can re-install these parts that have come adrift. If any one out there has experience with re-installing these please pass on what you found to work best. Thanks in advance.
So, kind of looks like if you were to maybe plaster things with grease they might stay where they need to while you slide things back together. Just a suggestion.
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