1953 dodge B4-HAJ52 QUESTIONS

[Ray J.]

That is some nice work Rustyzman. And that is an eleven inch clutch. If only the tranny went in as easy.

 

MBF you are so right. You have to be careful when dealing with outside machine work.

I thank the Lord every time I make progress.

It is 31 degrees outside so no work today.

Ray J.

 

[Ray J.]

Transmission is in. I went toe to toe with it for 4 hours. It wore me to a nub. Pix are of the all thread pieces I used to guide it home.

Also finished priming the back of the cab where I replaced the rust.

Back to wiring today.

Ray J.

[MBF]

I don't know who thought of that design, but bolting the bell housing solidly to the frame of the larger trucks, and then requiring you to remove the flywheel to pull the engine with the bolts facing the crank to me leaves a bit to be desired.  If they didn't have that front flange on the bell it would have been so much easier to yank the flatty out and reinstall it.  I did a slant 6 in my pickup years ago and that was a piece of cake compared to this one!  Thanks for the photos!

[rustyzman]

Nice work!  A beast to say the least. 

We are all spoiled with these aluminum cased transmissions now.  The cast iron 4 speed and 5 speed truck transmissions are more than a minor challenge.

 

 

[Ray J.]

MBF and Rustyzman I agree. I did a lot of Chevy stuff in the 70's and that was so nice.

Clutch fork was a piece of cake to reinstall with a new throw out bearing.

Took me about 30 minutes or so to get the Dodge TOB to line up and go onto the tranny.

 

Finished wiring the dually bed. There are a lot of lights on it.

 

Ray J.

 

Edited December 13 by Ray J.
left out info

[Ray J.]

Does anyone have a brake/clutch pedal diagram with all parts shown?

My pictures I took so I could reassemble them was on an SD card which went belly up.

Thanks

Ray J.