MikeTheMechanic123

I have a digital one and it doesn't seem to be that great to be honest. I have to pull it up on my other computer but when I did finally look at the steering because I had a chopper steering column in half, there was a piece on the front that I basically eliminated and I think it made the steering box feel like it was on center more. Nobody could tell me what it was but I didn't join this group so I have no idea if somebody else had an idea, But there was zero pictures of it in the manual but maybe I'll give that a shot...

Maybe it's easier to tell now when I flip the picture over but this particular one only goes to the throttle, seems like yours does as well but like I said, there appears to be an open hole at the bottom that is not in use on mine. I guess ultimately somebody with a '50s car would need to show me theirs.

Me neither in the short amount of time I've been researching it but it's definitely a 50's engine. It has the water pump that has the little tube on it that curls up to the water pump. I bought a 50's water pump. I've done another research, I've rebuilt the carburetor, it's definitely a 50 to a 53 engine. The serial number though was kind of scraped off and a new serial number was put so I think that it was an engine rebuilder at one time that built this engine. My question is if somebody else has the same piece of linkage and granted that particular screenshot that I took is on its side it would need to be rotated to the left 90° to be the proper up and down, left and right, but my question is, is that piece of linkage for the dynaflow because if somebody had put in an engine from a dinoflow then they would have to engineer a bushing which is much easier to do than go the other way as far as installing the original transmission from the 1940... Obviously if the engine was just a manual transmission type engine, it would be a near impossible to do in the car. I understand that the length of certain things would have to get changed but I don't think it's nearly as an engineering feat as putting the 700r4 in there with first buying the adapter for $1,100 and probably $1,000 to rebuild the transmission properly and that's before you even start engineering part for installing it. So ultimately, I just want to know if that linkage was meant for an automatic because there's nothing in it now, it makes me feel that it was originally an engine that went in front of an automatic, but I could be wrong, that hole could just be for return spring of some sort but I know it's probably not indicative of the 1940 set up. So I'm not really concerned about the engineering that we need to be done because if these are similar cars perhaps I can get the torque tube and everything else from another car and it'll be closer or doable or something along those lines. I just want to know if other people have the same piece of linkage on their automatics. Or for that matter, if the same bracket came with either the automatic or the standard version. Either that or if somebody knows that the 50 to 53 engine are ALL Good for the automatics and the only thing they do is put a bushing in there for the standard transmissions, I'm just speaking hypothetically of course. I don't know. I just would like somebody that happened to know that kind of information.

Is there a difference between 51 and 53? To my knowledge that was not and that's the type of engine that I have either that or it's 50 to 53. What do you make of that linkage if it was on a 50's car?

Just curious, I'm converting a lot on this car that I'm working on. Originality is not important to me. Just curious if this is technically an automatic engine to begin with because it's definitely a 50's engine that was put into my 1940 Buick Special. I was wondering if the empty hole on this linkage is a sign that it was actually an automatic transmission and then somebody made some kind of adapter to make it standard transmission to make the original 1940 transmission to work. Obviously won't know for sure unless I drop the tranny at some point. Not looking to spend all the money to convert it to a 700r4 and having the whole issue with redesigning the torque tube and whatnot. Just curious if it's worth it for me to buy a used Dynaflow and having it lay around just in case. I use classic cars and TV and movies and this is another one I've added to my collection, but I wanted to give it a lot of amenities, particularly if a stunt person would have to drive it and believe it or not stunt people, RARELY know how to drive stick shift let alone three on the tree so to save a transmission and the car in general, I was thinking of converting it to the automatic. I'm already putting a much bigger radiator with electric fans, converting to electric steering as we speak, making everything 12 volt, electronic ignition, disc brakes and a dual master, and air conditioning! So I just thought I might go for broke and just convert it to automatic but obviously I don't know if this engine was always a standard engine and if it could be converted to automatic, to a dynaflow, regardless based on the year. The numbers on the engine are almost impossible to see, it looks like somebody made their own numbers over this number and I don't have those numbers on me but I can tell by the extra set of mode amounts in the middle of the engine, that it's for 50's car. In other words I don't know if they made the back of the crankshaft to fit either transmission or not, or if this picture I'm providing leads a hint to that it was an automatic because I don't see where this hole gets hooked up and it does get incorporated with the throttle of the engine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please don't tell me the stick shift is better than the automatic, because that's not the issue here. I'll rebuild it and I'm sure it'll be fine, I'm doing this to avoid other issues that I talked about earlier in this posting.