My Father's Oldsmobile
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Your mishap reminded me of when I was 20. I had a 78 Nova and the shift linkage was a little off. I went to throw it in neutral and rev the engine while driving at 40 mph. I wound up hitting reverse and stalling the engine. Luckily nothing happened, both times I did it. The same trans is now in my Malibu and I couldn’t understand why it was stuck in gear a few months ago.
Well that sucks. It looks like junk to me. Are you going to try and fix it again? Is it original to the car? Maybe it trying to tell you it wants a five speed?
It'll be fine; parts are ordered (beefier AutoGear pieces). Soon, I will be able to start practicing my Smokey and the Bandit high speed J-turns.
Had to line up the clutch discs. One day, I'll grow up to have sh*t that don't leak. The throwout bearing's sleeve is nicked,so the o-ring leaks= very messy bellhousing. Ima tryin polish it out. Pulled the clutch apart, and, shoooooowee, she had some heat in her! I Ro-Loced the steels and went through about 5 cans of Brakleen, then threw the alignment tool in, only to find the pilot bushing wasted. I guess that was the high speed vibration I had. Got a Lakewood bushing on order from Speedway......
I have that same dream but I own old GM products. A BBO ****s sh*t up.
It's a McLeod RST, and I haven't been nice to it at all. 11k miles and 3 trips to the track on it now. Plenty of meat on the bone!
In today's episode of What Not To Do/Show #: 13,726: Pilot Bushings we learn how simple, old school tactics can be rendered useless by Murphy's Law.
Yesterday, I spent about an hour trying to figure out which bushing I needed, found a "racecar part", and ordered it. Today, I was checking out removal methods on the Google machine, and stumbled upon an AllStar extended roller bearing for less money than the straight bushing on Amazon. I think you can figure out what happened next.
Anyhow, on to removal..... several mention packing the hole with grease and using hydraulic pressure to force the bushing out by inserting a shaft and smacking it with a hammer. Things get fun when your shaft didn't make it all the way through and leaves a ridge at the bottom. Long story short: after many attempts with drill bits, extensions, and drifts, I found a bolt that threaded in, which worked it out enough to remove.
Yesterday, I spent about an hour trying to figure out which bushing I needed, found a "racecar part", and ordered it. Today, I was checking out removal methods on the Google machine, and stumbled upon an AllStar extended roller bearing for less money than the straight bushing on Amazon. I think you can figure out what happened next.
Anyhow, on to removal..... several mention packing the hole with grease and using hydraulic pressure to force the bushing out by inserting a shaft and smacking it with a hammer. Things get fun when your shaft didn't make it all the way through and leaves a ridge at the bottom. Long story short: after many attempts with drill bits, extensions, and drifts, I found a bolt that threaded in, which worked it out enough to remove.
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I distinctly remember being bitten by a pilot roller bearing in the same manner. It was on a 250 inline, and I was having a moment of wtf's and holy sh*ts wondering if I was ever going to get it out.
I put a brass one and forgot about it.
I put a brass one and forgot about it.
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