From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Sun Jan 25 2004 - 19:21:58 PST
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From: "Stephen & Jeanne Keith" <cckw@comcast.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M-35 transmission hoist on ebay soon
> Well, my super-duper secret method of installing a tranny:
>
> I get my friend Earl to lay under the truck with the tranny
> on his chest. I tell him he is inspecting the bottom of the
> truck for ants or sumpin.
Got lots of laughs from all these more recent replies. Too funny. On a
serious note, someone might already have mentioned the following method (as
I missed most of the earlier contributions), but if not - here it is.
When we have to remove transmissions on any of the M35/54/816 critters, we
prop open the front windows - slide or remove the hard-cab back window -
then put a building beam of suitable thickness (I think we have a both a
6"x6" and an 8"x8" one and sometimes double them up) through the open front
window and through the open back window. The cleverer ones among us will
now realize there's a giant building beam running through the cab ;)
Anyway, we then wrap several wraps of chain around the beam, hook a chain
come-along to the chain, and find a few tie points on the transmission to
attach yet another small chain for lifting - or make a sling of chain and
then hook up the come-along. The biggest trick is trying to keep it aligned
when you reinstall the transmission by yourself, but it can be done. It's
still not much fun.
As to aligning the clutch etc. goes, (and this has probably been mentioned
too), one thing we found in a bunch of ex-military shop tools was an old
transmission input-shaft that some enterprising army mechanic had kept
around to use as a clutch disk alignment tool. It works perfectly, and sure
beats fiddling around either eyeballing it or using a combination of other
things to get fairly close.
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