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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Greaser Bob, Mar 6, 2014.

  1. Greaser Bob
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    Last night I managed to drop the little speedometer drive gear down inside my Chevy 3-speed manual transmission. It is an open drive line, and it is bolted up to a 235 straight six. I unfortunately have no idea what year it is, but it does have a shorter tail.
    Any idea what tooth and where I can buy another one?
     
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  3. Greaser Bob
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    Yah only I have no idea how many teeth it had!

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  4. 24riverview
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    Did you see what color it was before it slipped away? Or old enough to be metal?
     

  5. B.Sharp
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    take the side cover off where your shifter brackets are and pull it out. It will drain the fluid but you can catch it and put it back in.
     
  6. honeyman
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    Yeah, what B.Sharp said, don't think you want to leave it in there.
     
  7. 24riverview
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    Don't think that's gonna work, would probably require the removal of the rear extension housing which means partial transmission disassembly. Unless there is a big enough oil hole I'm not aware of. (if it's a 50's-early 60's trans as I suspect)
     
  8. Andy
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    Those things were chock full of loose needle bearings. The drive gear is in the tailhousing and it must come off to pull the output shaft. You need to pull the trans and stick it nose down in an old wheel or bell housing, Remove the 5 bolts and pray the needles stay in the input shaft. There is a snap ring that has to be compressed so the tail shaft will come out of the tail housing. I believe the order of the needles is the big ones at the bottom then a small ring then the big ring and then the other needles.
     
  9. This sounds like a lot of work to take apart. Is there any way to go in through the speedo drive hole with a borescope and a crooked pair of tweezers. If doctors can get inside your heart a speedo gear should be a piece of cake.
     
  10. choppedtudor
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    yeah, I'd be goin' fishin'....ya can't just leave it in there.
     
  11. Greaser Bob
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    We're these gears plastic? Can I leave it and just let it get munched? I think it fell forward so maybe the oil sump area is deep enough it would just lay in the bottom?

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  12. gimpyshotrods
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    If it is/was a plastic gear, the transmission will reduce it to plastic dust, with zero effort or damage.
     
  13. Greaser Bob
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    Although I didn't see it I think it was plastic.

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  14. gimpyshotrods
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    Metal would be a certain issue, although I have never seen a metal one.
     
  15. Greaser Bob
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    Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!
    Turns out there is some cast webbing that stopped it from falling all the way into the bath/sump area, and I "fished" forever until I got it!!
    Thanks again guys!!!
     
  16. The37Kid
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    Was it metal or plastic? Bob
     
  17. Greaser Bob
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    Plastic-looks just like the one gimpyshotrods pictured above!
     
  18. Slow down motorhead!
     
  19. Greaser Bob
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    I know-look at me go! I've been spoiled with having my own inner sanctum (garage) for the last 20 years. Little things like NOT having to remove my transmission in my current parking lot, really make me happy!
     

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