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Tue, 16 May 2017 18:01   |
Ken Henderson
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Americus, GA
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Johnny,
Congratulations on your success!
Just to clarify the procedure for other novices: It's very important to
engage the two alignment studs at the rear of the engine FIRST. A couple
of the 3/8-16x1-1/2 bolts just lightly through the bell housing into the
engine will prevent the studs from disengaging from the
transmission&bellhousing while you maneuver the final drive and install its
gasket. My lifting tool can't interfere if that sequence is followed.
Ken H.
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Johnny Bridges via Gmclist <
gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:
> 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
> --
> 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" - ol Andy, paraphrased
>
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