There is nothing we dislike more than a oil leak! Especially on You-Know-Who's garage floor. One might wonder why when we bought this truck he didn't expect it to get the garage dirty. Maybe his first clue should have been the rat's nest and spiders. We'll leave the poor guy's disillusions for another blog, though.
So we seem to have two leaks, one by the transmission and another one coming from the rear axle thingy. John thinks we can fix that one with Tracy reading the repair manual and telling John word for word what to do. (This seems to work on a lot of things in our life, but mostly Christmas Eve). The leak on the transmission concerns us, though, considering our family mechanic is in Guam dealing with what appears to be ex-wives and girlfriends of his past coming back to haunt him (He always said what comes around goes around. Hmmm...maybe he does know what he's talking about). So, this week we will get the rear differential cleaned up so we can replace the gasket. After that, the two Shade Tree mechanics will give it a shot. Not sure what we're going to do about the transmission leak. It might be a little over our head. All advice is welcome.
There is nothing we dislike more than a oil leak! Especially on You-Know-Who's garage floor. One might wonder why when we bought this truck he didn't expect it to get the garage dirty. Maybe his first clue should have been the rat's nest and spiders. We'll leave the poor guy's disillusions for another blog, though.
So we seem to have two leaks, one by the transmission and another one coming from the rear axle thingy. John thinks we can fix that one with Tracy reading the repair manual and telling John word for word what to do. (This seems to work on a lot of things in our life, but mostly Christmas Eve). The leak on the transmission concerns us, though, considering our family mechanic is in Guam dealing with what appears to be ex-wives and girlfriends of his past coming back to haunt him (He always said what comes around goes around. Hmmm...maybe he does know what he's talking about). So, this week we will get the rear differential cleaned up so we can replace the gasket. After that, the two Shade Tree mechanics will give it a shot. Not sure what we're going to do about the transmission leak. It might be a little over our head. All advice is welcome.
2 comments:
Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Studebakers are a lot like male dogs--they mark their territory whenever they get a chance. Even with that belly-button engine, he is just doin' what come natural. Good luck and may I suggest a drip pan.
In 1956 my best friend and i with a couple of shorts watching on and doing an occsional giggly wipe of our smudge but still handsome faces.
Installed a set of milled heads on a 49 Merc flathead. Our two most technical tools were a cresent wrench and vise grip. Torque wrench we dinnint need no stinkin torque wrench. In fact if quearied we'd have said Huh?
With your favorite seat cover translating i thiink the diff gasket will be no trouble.
The "trans" i think you need to make that one a bonding project in April.
But the you have sockets and a garage. All you need now is a 1968 chilton repair manual for that chebbie 3spd. a day in the garage with the reader.
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