tranny ngears.... headlight rim cork
 

while chatting "a" trannys someone said thay had heard somewhere about using some kind of chevy gears in a ford tranny to get syncronisers. any one heared of this?

a while back i ordered the cork gasket for the headlight rim, they were so brittle they crumbled when i tried installing them. the supplier replaced them with better ones, but has any one come up with a better idea. maybe some small vinyl hose or foam material. cork gaskets are almost a thing of the past, there must be a better way.

Re: tranny ngears.... headlight rim cork
 

They used to, and maybe still do, sell rubber (type) gasket for the headlight reflector to rim gaskets.

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Sulfur in rubber will outgas over time to tarnish the silver in the reflectors. Silver tarnish is mostly silver sulfide. Maybe the non-cork gaskets are made of neoprene?

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I have edited my post. On some of my old car headlights I found waxed cord used as a gasket.

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Don't know about Chevy gears, but Mitchell makes a synchronized Model A tranny that I believe is in a stock tranny case, or close to it. Bolts right in. Not cheap, however.

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