| The transmission follies [message #317628] |
Tue, 16 May 2017 16:48  |
jhbridges
Messages: 8412
Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga
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Manny rebuilt the failed transmission at Ken Henderson's place, I picked it up Monday and got it under the coach and lined up. George Zhookoff came up this afternoon to help. With Ken's lifting tool which allows you to lift the transmission up with a chain fall on the gantry and get it in place on the final drive and the engine. Sounds simple, got a lift on the engine and another on the trans. Got it hooked to the final drive and the splines mated. Spent more than an hour trying to figure out why it wouldn't lift into place properly. Tried EVERYthing. Finally on one lower of the entire assembly I got a look in the gap between the two assemblies. A note to the neophytes - and remember, neither of us has put one in before I removed mine though - If you put the lower bolt in Ken's tool just a bit too far forward, it will catch on the block skirt and you may yank and pry and jack and curse... but it ain't gonna go. Since we had the final drive bolted up, and a lifting strap under the engine, we removed the lifting tool. Fifteen minutes to jack the whole thing into place and bolt it up.
George: THANKYOUthankyouTHANKYOUthankyou!!!
Would I do it again? For Georgie, certainly. For Manny or Ken, anytime. Beyond that, I'd admire to superintend and do the two handed part. Should have taken an hour and a half, we spent the afternoon. Now, I have to sort the cooling, and reconnect everything, and replace all the fasteners with new hardware. Time consuming true, but one handed and easy. Ten bux at the Bolt Room at Coker Equipment locally for bolts and washers, probably fifty or so for new lines and fittings.
--johnny
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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