Sleepyaligator

Nothing happens very fast in my world. The forward gears shifter rod was frozen, but WD-40 and a lot of wiggling freed it up! With a rope for a throttle, no brakes, and no experience driving forklifts I crashed into everything in my friend's "junk" yard but made it up to where I could load her on a trailer and bring it home!

My next problem is the transmission wont go into forward gears. There seem to be two reverse gears. Is that possible? Took the 4 bolt tower off and the left shaft moves freely but the right shaft is frozen. I saw the two springs that apparently hold steel balls into shifting detents. Could this be where the mechanism if locked up? Any references to to fixing these things?

ForkliftRunning.mp4

Well Happy Day! New fuel pump. carb, starter, plugs, wires, coil, and condenser. Engine would not start, absolutely nothing, not even a single "putt". Firing order 153624. We looked at the distributor to make sure it was spinning counterclockwise like all the diagrams. Of course it was. My brain could not accept the fact of what it was seeing. Put the cap and wires back together for counterclockwise firing order. Nothing. And finally, reality sank it. The distributor is spinning CLOCKWISE! Quick re-ordering of the wires and the engine started right up. No misses, or noises, just PURRS!

Thanks DJ. Getting the starter rebuilt seems like a good option. Definitely will change the freeze plugs too!

Thanks! Distributer on the side. Plymouth 230 seems likely

Thanks Sniper!

So far this is what I have. The nameplate is virtually unreadable. I am trying to identify the engine in order to identify the starter for replacement. FROM NAME PLATE The Yale & Towne Mfg Co Philadelphia Pennsylvania MODEL ?? -1OU ?? SERIAL 54 097 POWER IND-3?0-104 Pounds Center Height 4275 21 ? 4000 24 ? 3750 27 ? 3500 30 ? TWO STAMPS ON HEAD A 1 E5 50 <-- could be a date like 1.5.50 P 1405849-3 TWO STAMPS ON BLOCK T3Co 1I23I77 <-- 1I is really ?I T3C.1I23I77 or T334*II0C7* or T3C6*I23I77 543097 Engine may be a 218 Plymouth flathead 6 dated 1/5/1950 or 6 cylinder gas Continental engine model F226 seems likely Looking for some suggestions about how to track down a the right starter. Thanks!