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Looked again at this car and the vibration is definitely from the engine & this appears to be the only issue. Great car but also big money (for this guy).
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Dave (694.1), call Dunham's in West Allis.
And buy this car already, will ya? ...Ya been hemming and hawing about this thing for a year! |
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Update: Something interesting is happening. Wish me luck!
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I just rebuilt mine with a kit from Dave at autotran he has a very basic web page but has an awesome full rebuild kit for I think about $450 and he has all the schematics, he was very helpful, I had to make a puller to pull the clutch pack apart, I wouldn't recommend doing it yourself unless your quite mechanically minded as it's got a lot of parts and you need to make a few drifts up for pressing out some of the bronze bushes, if u have the time and patience then have a crack at it.
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Suggest google rolls royce gearbox rebuild as they used Hydros for many years (early fifties to maybe early seventies ) and you might get a good idea of whats involved.I dont know how much they evolved but they are still the same basic gearbox.
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I think that the last year of RR built Hydra-Matics was 1966. Some had a disk-type parking brake on a shaft sticking out the right side of the tranny near the rear. Otherwise they are very similar to GM transmissions. Good info on RR Hydra-Matics can be found here:
http://www.kda132.com/pdfs/technical...Suspension.pdf
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I bought a rebuild kit for my 347 and hydamatic in my 57 gmc on my last trip to your great country. A buddy over here and he posts on here rebuilt his own hydamatic last year. I had trouble with my tranny a few years back and we did get it fixed but it was a slow process checking everything and adjusting. Many thanks to steve p with the great sdvice he gsve me on this site. However later on I removed the motor and tranny and a few months back i installed a 400 motor and Trans out of a 68 Catalina. I used the aftermarket crossmember so you can buy for a early chev truck. For 3 k it is now running and running well. I had a buddy help me and it took a week of after work days to finish. Now it Goes great . I put the original 265 thousand miles motor and tranny from the gmc under my bench so I may rebuild it when I can afford. If not I will just enjoy it as it is. I haven't noticed any problems with incomparable ratios. I not long did a 800 mole shakedown run over some pretty windy roads with no problems. Haha. Tell you what though. The gmc certainly gets up ND goes a lot better than it ever did and a lot quicker than the designers ever visioned.
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Did you have any parts left over tommo
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#30
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Pontiacpark, we want pictures!
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"At no time did we exceed 175 mph.” Dan Gurney's truthful response to his and Brock Yate's winning of the first ever Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining Sea... Still have my 1st Firebird 7th Firebird 57 Starchief |
#31
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Ok. Give E some time and I will climb under and take some photos.. my 57 gmc is on this site if you search my posts.
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Took pics. Having trouble loading. I'm happy to send to a member and they can upload. ?
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