Deve, are sure the standard trans even has a x-member? My 4-spds never had
one. They had open drive lines tho. I'm thinking all the old trucks and the
cars too just used the bellhousing to mount trans, might be wrong. Check the
Assembly Man, which I should have B4 this mail, I guess. The engines used
front and bellhouse to mount, if it had a trans mount it would only have two
sidemounts on engine like later years. A three-point mount that way.
I'm 45 and not liking to work on old stuff like I used too. I keep buying
more tools to make it easier. It's harder to find time and money now with
teenagers and overtime at work wearing me out. Now that it's winter I pretty
much stop all garage work, even tho I have a furnace (somewhat) to heat
garage. It's still cold at floor and costs a lot to run with house heat too.
I'm at the point that I'm thinking of sending more work out to others to do
and just "bite the bullet" to pay for it. It is hard to find people to
bother with "restoration" problems. They all are used to R&R of new parts.
The old truck bug is in the "blood" and can't seem to get rid of it. I tried
and sold most of my tools and projects once to make spouse "happy" for once.
That lasted about a year and I started all over again and now have 4 or 5
projects going that I'll probably never finish, who knows? Good Luck and
happy hunting or ?
"G"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deve Krehbiel" <dkrehbiel@kscable.com>
To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] 1950 Crossmember
> 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
> www.speedprint.com/Deves50/index.html
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