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OK, so sounds like this can be wired just like the diagram for positive ground?

Yes, I have spent 30 mins looking for a diagram and all are negative ground. OK, I'll keep trying to wrap my head around positive ground. It is not that difficult.

I would like to install a pair of vintage 6 volt fog lamps onto the bumper of my 1935 Plymouth, which is 6 volt positive ground. This can't be that difficult, but positive ground messes with my head. Can someone please send a relay wiring diagram for this? The relay is the 5 terminal type, designed for 6 volts. Thanks! David

Keith, I sent an email to both of the links you provided. Perhaps in a few days I will find paydirt! Fingers crossed. Thanks for the help!

Keith, So, it sounds like the gear box in this '35 PJ is early and smaller in size. Too bad all the good info on parts is hard to find now. Sniper, I was checking and hoping, but no numbers or identifying marks. Bearing supply house - hummmm...

Second photo showing seal gap to the actual shaft.

I pulled the steering box out of my 1935 Plymouth PJ since it felt just a touch loose and the bottom seal was leaking. With it all apart I'm ready to put it back together and found that the replacement bottom seal is too large to fit in the Gemmer box itself and there is a gap around the seal where in contacts the shaft. So, that tells me that the 1935 seal must be smaller than the 1936 and up seals. See attached photo. Left seal is new and too large, right is slightly mangled original. My hope is that someone out there has the correct seal or knows where I can get one. I'm stuck until then.

The transmission and driveline parts are still not installed into the car, so I made one more large format image on film of the group together on the bench. Maybe next month it will head back into the car!

westaus29 - I think you are on to something. Thanks for your help! The '35 manual describes #4 as a "drive pinion bearing washer" and it sure does look like it fits properly on the extra input shaft shown in the picture. Of course, the manual does not show a picture of the washer.

Sam - I would much rather do the work here at home and I do have a medium sized bench vise. The job will require a pipe or special tool to hold the bearing?

Things were going pretty well and I just about had the transmission back together when I found this clip or washer and can't remember where it fits. During disassembly, I took plenty of pictures to help, but not one pictures taken shows where this clip belongs. Isn't it always that way? The picture attached is of the old one, there is a new one in the small parts kit. So, where does it fit?

All of this help is sure appreciated. I'm sad to read that others have had to deal with low quality parts and find out after it is back together in the car. Nothing like doing the job twice! The Federal catalog page is very helpful. I see a few old stock bearings #1054 are available on ebay, so I think that is the route to go. After receiving one, it's back to the mechanic's shop to have them press off the noisy new bearing and press the Federal bearing on.

I'm finally getting this transmission together and questions have come along with a bit of frustration. Hopefully, someone with the same experience can pass along some advice. The new throwout beaing from Bernbaum's is pressed onto the bearing sleeve, however, when I rotate the bearning by hand it seems noisy. Is that normal or is grease from the grease line able to enter the bearing through the tiny hole? Or, are the replacement bearings just not of great quality? Also, the end of the grease line that connects to the bearing sleeve has me scratching the ever increasing in size bald spot on my head.... How does one fill the line with grease? I attached an image of the end of the line.

6 cylinder distributor and a long forgotten dwell meter, captured on 8x10 film.

Keith - great idea! I don't have any engine parts for our flathead 6, however, perhaps an image of a '60s cam, lifters and a valve.