[Bob Carriere]

Need help form the experienced tranny rebuilders.....

How do you take the darn tower apart....???

The manual..... may God bless Alex's little soul.... shows a special U shape tool that fits around the shifter.....says to press and turn left to release......

Ok now without the 1940 GM tool..... anyone knows a trick to remove without damaging the precious parts...... I will not promise like Jon my first born....... but a cold twelve pack if you promise to drink it at my place.....

I am into tranny number two.... the first was for practice... the second is my good one for the cab 11 which I wokred on after reading the manual..... may tare down another one to check for better gears...... mine were pitted somewhat on the lower quadrant. I do intend to replace all bearing if my trusted friend at Industrial Solution can source them as he did before.

I have taken mega pictures of the last teardown and will do the same for the reassembly...... God willing I will produce an article on the ins and out and will seduce Phil Waterman to make it available on his fantastic web site. Interesting to compare the early 1940 tranny and the late 45..... such as the speedometer access on the rear cover...... and different casting metal.

The early model the rear cover is made of white pot metal or some strange light alloy and is machined to take a spedometer gear... o n the later war models they are made of cast iron and the speedometer boss is not machine or drilled but left in the raw blank form........ did not keep the heavy cast iron from breaking when a yoke/U joint bolt worked loose..... an inherent weak design.......

Credit goes to Harry Moon of BC for first identifying this problem.