1966 C10 Project Truck

[scoot_mcgrute]

Update from the weekend. I dropped the tranny down Friday night to take some measurements and everything seemed to have plenty of clearance, until I measured the length of the input and compared it to the dimension from bottomed out on the crank to the bellhousing. I had a bunch of interference there. I put the tranny in my vise and chopped about 1/4" off the end of the input shaft. When we went to stab it back in, we kept hitting a hard stop and no matter what, we couldn't get it to slide in. What had happened was after the tranny came out, I put the clutch alignment tool in the clutch and had dad push the clutch pedal, the clutch released and I must have pulled the alignment tool out a little too soon and the clutch disc dropped down so the hard stop that we were feeling was the pilot bushing.

Last night, I put the new pilot bushing in place and got the clutch and bellhousing on the motor. Tonight, the tranny will go back on and hopefully work like it's supposed to. Fingers crossed!





New throwout bearing, it'll get rid of the free play in the pedal.


Gotta love backwards progress!


The awesome pilot bushing

[TJ's Chevy]

Fingers Crossed!

[scoot_mcgrute]

I made some good progress last night on the transmission front. I put it all back together and the tranny was still bound up, slid it back on the bolts and everything worked like it should so we pulled it down and I cut another 1/8" or so off the input and put it back in place. This time, it seems that I didn't have the pilot bushing in as far so the splines were hitting it but it was almost working properly! I ended up screwing that bushing up too so today I will make an install tool and try again Thursday night.

While bummed, I'm still making forward progress so that's what counts