Welp.... seeing how there was no takers to my original message, I determined
that the person who put the Hydramatic in my 50 also put the crossmember
from the donor 54 in as well. Its totally wrong for a standard tranny and
modifying it wouldnt be all that great an idea since measurements would be
suspect at best. I will go salvaging next week for a crossmember and the
clutch pedal assembly that is also missing. This is turning out to be quite
a project. Its been redneck engineered like I have never seen. For example
the studs on the exhaust manifold broke so some genius decided to make a
four sided metal bracket to clamp the exhaust pipe to the manifold. It was
very elaborate! I was almost impressed with their use of bailing wire to
hold the whole thing together. I mean jeeze!!... dont go out and spend $1.75
on a few new studs and replace them, lets engineer an entire rig that is
bound to fail in the first few hundred miles! Some people should not be
allowed to use bailing wire and welders. If you want a real hoot, go to a
good salvage yard with a lot of these trucks and see what people have
devised to get their trucks to run just a little farther. But to be honest,
once you get over the shock that the world is full of stupid people, it is
rather amusing and then fun to go back and fix right. Problem is, the shock
is wearing off as I get older. I am concerned over what I will do to amuse
myself once the final reality sets in! Anyone over 42 might tell me what
there is to look forward to next! Haha!
Deve Krehbiel
Hesston, Kansas
1950 3100 * 1949 3600 * 1948 4400 * 50 3100
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