Well, spent a little more time cleaning some of the transmission items tonight and decided to inspect the gears inside the transmission a little more closely. Wish I hadn't done that. You'll have to forgive me as I'm not sure what the correct names for all of the pieces in the transmission are. Anyway, the shaft in the bottom of the transmission, where the 1st gear slides into has several chipped teeth. The reverse gear on the "side" of the transmission also has some chipped teeth. So now what?????
Not wanting to have a completely useless evening I decided to "shower some attention" on the transmission crossmember. Man it was covered in at least 1/8 of crude. Got all that off and noticed the welds holding the "tube" to the "end caps" weren't looking too good so I decided to reweld them. I still need to clean up some of the welding slag but I'm happy with the results. I'll wire wheel the whole thing, prime and paint it.
