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You are correct. There wasn't much to prevent the removal of the housing. Just remove things until it comes out. I did have to remove the starter pinion gear for clearance without dropping the bolt and washer into the bell housing. Hopefully I also get it back together without dropping them

I am going to lube my speedometer cable today. The shop manual says to unscrew the oil tube and saturate the wick with Mopar speedometer oil. The screw is a small Allen type and I don't have the right size wrench. Is it OK to just put some drops of oil down the hole to lube it? And what type of lubricant should I put on the cable. The manual calls for Mopar All-weather speedometer lubricant.

I'd like to watch it work. Don't ask me why...

That top cover is unmistakable. It is the "small Buick" transmission, variations of which were also used in Pontiac and Oldsmobile. I have no idea which variation this is, but it probably isn't Buick, as Buicks had torque tubes through 1960. Didn't you say 50 Oldsmobile? Oldsmobiles typically had open drivelines and really short tailshafts so that tracks. Also, it may be a "selector" type(?), where the shift mechanism has to move sideways as well as fore/aft. I can't imagine it working in a Plymouth easily. Is there a GM engine in the Plymouth?

That's where I was going to try first. The guy on the phone didn't have any parts for the olds transmission but said he had a bucket full of slip yokes that I can search through and a whole bunch more installed on yard cars. Just hoping to have a plan before I go out there.

Thanks for the info. That's the problem I'm finding with trying to get a slip yoke for this project (thought that part would be easy but not so much) For this trans tailshaft, the splines are 16 splines and cut on a taper .985" min ID and 1.169 major diameter. The more common GM transmissions for that time have 16 splines with straight cut grooves instead of taper cut. I can probably do other machine work as needed but hoping to get a spline with the correct engagement.

Thanks Matt. That definitely looks like the car. The transmission has GM letters on it. Think that's just a coincidence or did Plymouth use GM transmissions or maybe the car had a swap at some point during its life?

There is a chance that I have what you are looking for - I have to double check and it might be Monday before I report back - if you haven't heard from me by Tuesday send me a reminder. The caps I have have the right Dodge script - I just can't remember if they are the car or truck ones and just as important the condition. Don

Posted twice. Read my comments in your other post. New Port has good products, and I will bet that something has slipped out of place.

All - YEA YEA YEA ! Today I was contacted by Coker Tire and they are going to run several gray tires as part of their promotion with HCCA . Se the attached flyer. I will follow up here and am very hopeful that I can finally source my Kissel gray tires thru this method!!! Ron Hausmann P.E.

Can you see anything from under the dash? I would suspect that something has slipped at the motor. In the after-market system I played with not so long ago there was several places in the motor that the output of the motion could be adjusted. Like if the linkage is near the outside of the driven gear the arms would travel farther. Closer to the center would result in less travel of the arms. The driven wheel had a spiral affair that offered several settings.

Do not waste your money on those DeWalt replacement batteries. They come in the DeWalt colors of yellow and black but that's about it. I purchased two six months ago and when charged over night the charge lasts about 5 minutes or less than a dozen drywall screws. Real 18 volt DeWalt batteries are not available anywhere.

I have a new harness in my Victory six so I’d imagine it would be very similar. So if you have no luck finding a standard I’d be happy to take some pictures for you.

Thanks, ABear, for stopping by Not too sure about the corrosion theory, as scraping these deposits away from metal surfaces with a fingernail generally reveals clean plating underneath(!) No appreciable rust on the bare steel bits, either. Overall, it really does remind me of hard water deposits in old pipes... I've attached the best pic I could get of an in-tank specimen (note the queer amber crystals on the ID).

Don't know anything on the Newport system but on a Delco wiper motor that signals either a bad ground or something internal on the motor. Usually park circuit. I'd call Newport and see what they say.

Thank you so much for taking the time to take the photographs to share with all of us, MOST appreciated. Walt

When you had your driveshafts rebuilt did you look in your service manual for the proper phasing. If I remember correctly, it’s something like 105 degrees.

14 years old with my 941 Olds 6. The car was about 21-22 years old at the time but back then a 10-15 year old car was an exception on the road. One in good shape was even less common. I also had a 1939 Buick Special at the time but that had not been treated as well. Both pictures were taken in the spot where my garage stands today.

Tire width is the first three digits in the size. 225 mm is 225 mm whether it is 75 or 35. The two digit number following the / in the tire size is the height expressed as a % of the width. A 225/75 tire means that the height is 75% of 225mm. A 225/60 tire means the height is 60% of 225mm. Both are the same width. One thing that could dictate whether a tire rubs or doesn’t rub might be the rim width or back spacing. What we tend to forget is that in 63, 64, and 65, bias ply tires were closer to 83% height to width ratios. Modern tires the same height as the originals will be wider than the originals so unless run a much smaller tire, you’re liable to experience some tire rub. To get away from any rubbing possibilities, you’d probably have to drop down to a 205 width on a 5.5” rim. That would create an unusual appearance and the rolling diameter of the tire would cause you to run the engine at higher than normal RPMs which will have a negative affect your gas mileage. If you’re thinking that you want to run that small of a tire, be sure to check the load range of the tire which determines how much weight the tires will carry safely. My 1990 Riviera uses 205/70R15 tires but it weights 600 lbs less than the 63 or 64.

Did you end up getting these? If yeah, how’d they turn out?

I have bought DeWalt and HF Bauer 20V LI tools and batteries over the past three years. I bought one Bauer battery as a single purchase. I found the best way to expand the tool selection and battery power on hand is to buy the tool and battery package deals. I ended up hanging a pegboard for the new tools and building a shelf for the batteries and chargers. Plenty of backup power. I have seen the quality of off shore tools and other products increase dramatically at the consumer level where the individual makes the decision. I have been pleased with Harbor Freight for a few years now that I changed my stand on competitive marketing. I have encountered the old stereotype junk in corporate purchases where professional purchasing agents are remote from the end use. They will buy junk in a minute. Always ready to prove my cynicism we recently yielded to Frontier's threatening upgrade to fiber. They mounted a POS enclosure on the side of my house that could only have been found by a corporate purchasing agent with a doctorate. It was one level up from cellophane. It was laughable. To the question, I would give the cheapies a try. Even learning not to buy has some value. Sometimes more value than you think.