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09-08-2019, 02:02 PM | #1 |
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Transmission, 1955 Victoria
When driving the car the transmission always shifts just fine. Nice and smooth. However, from time to time, as I back the car into the garage I hear a "clank". For example, this morning after backing in I decided to needed to move over to one side just a little bit. So I pulled out of the garage, and then when I put the gear into reverse to back in again I heard the "clank". This has happened a few times but not every time. I would appreciate your comments please. Thanks
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09-08-2019, 03:51 PM | #2 |
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Re: Transmission, 1955 Victoria
Worn universal joints?
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09-08-2019, 04:45 PM | #3 |
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Re: Transmission, 1955 Victoria
Thanks Alan: That sounds likely and will be an easier fix than pulling the tranny.
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09-08-2019, 07:40 PM | #4 |
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Re: Transmission, 1955 Victoria
If it only clunks one time every time you change from forward to reverse or vise versa, then more than likely it's one or both u-joints.
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09-08-2019, 10:32 PM | #5 |
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Re: Transmission, 1955 Victoria
I had a '57, 9" rearend that would clank when you put the trans in drive or reverse. Way too much play between pinion and ring gears. But figuring out that it was the gears was a no-brainer; you could hear the clank coming from the back under the car.
If U-joints are properly installed, greased periodically and still have the rubber seals at the caps, you should be able to use them practically forever. The only time I ever had a U-joint clank is when the fool who put it on couldn't get one of the caps to go on all the way, so he couldn't install the cap keeper clip, so it lost one of the caps on the road and began to clank. |
09-12-2019, 08:19 AM | #6 |
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09-12-2019, 04:26 PM | #7 |
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Re: Transmission, 1955 Victoria
My mistake, was intermediate band.
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09-12-2019, 06:14 PM | #8 |
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Re: Transmission, 1955 Victoria
Just about everyone has had a situation where they had to shift from forward gear to reverse to get a vehicle unstuck or moving. This was something a person had to be very careful about with a cast iron case Borg Warner type. They do like to crack that support in the case. I've gone looking for hard parts on several occasions for Cruise-O-Matics and others only to find out why the cars that had them were in the salvage yard. Now and then you get lucky and find one that had a bad motor or rear axle.
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