- Hey this is Davin with Redline Rebuild updates.
Today, I'm going to work on this Chrysler
manual transmission.
Now this tranny is for our 1937 Ford Coupe
race car of Snowball Bishops.
And in the day,
obviously they ran a manual transmission.
This is the tranny that they had sitting around
and put back in the car.
They and I have no idea what's in the inside of this
other than we know it spins freely.
So, it's not seized up but that doesn't mean that
the gears aren't bad and bearings and whatnot.
It does shift and go through the gears fine.
I think I'll probably do something a little different here
on the shifter mechanism.
Maybe get a replacement or do something here
only to clean up the old stick weld.
Oh crap! It broke and we're racing in an hour.
We got to fix this.
So, the indy shifter may
have to have a little bit of massage to it,
but anyhow we're going to get going.
Shifter comes off first,
drain the oil,
get the side cover and a tail shaft off
and then start disassembling the guts of the transmission.
Alright, here we go.
(upbeat music)
(pounding)
Well, we have our side cover off.
The tail shaft is loose I did pop it loose
and I have one bolt left in it,
there must be a clip inside here as we go.
But overall, just looking at the gears
and the cluster in here and it looks really nice,
nice and clean so,
and the gear lube is actually quite fresh.
My plan here is to...
I'm still going to completely disassemble it.
I'm going to completely wash it.
I'm going to actually sandblast the housings and paint them,
and then we'll put it all back together with fresh seals
and any bearings of course as we go,
we'll double and triple check those,
make sure they're nice and solid
so there's no issues going down the road.
But right now, man, this is nice.
(banging)
It's not going to come out that way.
There I figured out,
how to get it all align.
(banging)
Remember all that fun we had in the last one?
(banging)
Damn.
Okay, alright, so here we are.
We have the transmission pretty much disassembled
but at least into its, call it main components.
In the main body here I still have the reverse gear
and shaft seal in here.
Reason being is I cannot...
there's no straight access to this to knock that shaft out
like I did on the counter shaft.
I'm going to have to make up some sort of a tool,
think of it like a left right hand type of tool
where I can come in here and thread it and it'll pop it out.
I'll have to figure out something there.
But in the meantime I can still get this washed.
Get all the grease and nastiness out of it
and start moving forward on the restoration
of this center section.
Now on this end, we have all of our...
This is the main gear cluster.
The only thing that's missing is really is the input shaft,
it's sitting there,
but you have your main gear cluster.
So your first, second, third and fourth gear are on in here
and of course your shift forks and such.
This is your output shaft with the little speedo gear
machined right into it
which we're not going to use in a race car.
But we're going to take and inspect all the bearings,
pull this completely apart.
I'll lay it out as an exploded view,
mainly so I know how it goes back together.
And then last is the tail shaft,
which just got to pull out this seal and the bushing
and it is ready for the parts washer at that point,
so that is where we're headed.
I'm going to put all the main pieces
and parts into the parts washer,
get everything decreased
and get ready to be reassembled and inspect,
I should say inspected and reassembled
and that's where we're going.
(upbeat music)
If you're into fishing,
you'll get this joke.
It's such a pretty thing.
(upbeat music)
Alright, so there we have it.
We have everything clean.
The parts washer worked wonderfully
and I'm all ready to assemble
Other than then I need rebuild kits.
I need the seals, obviously the gaskets,
I'm going to get brand new bearings just to...
they're cheap I'm going to replace them while I'm here.
And then likewise, these c clips will be brand new as well
and I did find the right tool to take them out,
instead of screwdrivers.
We'll show you that when we go to put it back together.
With that, the only thing
I have left to do that was on my list for today,
was to get the case and the tail shaft sandblasted
and completely ready to assemble.
But as you can see, I didn't get that done
and it's the end of the day.
So, like I say, my work's done.
I'm going to go have some fun.
(car engine roaring)