Hi
Trying to install a Chicago auxiliary transmission in my Speedster and find that it fouls the cross shaft.
Does anyone have any images of an installed transmission showing the crosshaft?
Installing Chicago auxiliary transmission
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Rajo T Speedster
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Ed Baudoux
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Re: Installing Chicago auxiliary transmission
I'm attaching a picture of the auxiliary transmission in our TT. This was built in Bob Scherzer's auto shop class in high school, when I was a student in the late 70's. I believe that the Chicago transmission requires a similar custom brake shaft.
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Grayling Michigan
1927 Fordor
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1927 Fordor
1926 Huckster
1923 TT
1930 Fordor
1930 Tudor
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walber
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Re: Installing Chicago auxiliary transmission
I cut the cross shaft off and made a bracket that bolts to the back side of the front of the transmission (where it bolts to T transmission).
I added another cross shaft at the rear of the Chicago and put a link between the old and new shafts.
Will try to clean things up a bit and get a photo or two this weekend or early next week.
I added another cross shaft at the rear of the Chicago and put a link between the old and new shafts.
Will try to clean things up a bit and get a photo or two this weekend or early next week.
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Dan McEachern
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Re: Installing Chicago auxiliary transmission
We pretty much did the same thing that Walt describes above.
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walber
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Re: Installing Chicago auxiliary transmission
Dan's is exactly the same concept and his bracket looks simpler. Go with his.
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Rajo T Speedster
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Re: Installing Chicago auxiliary transmission
Thanks for all the replies. I will alter my cross shaft to go below the box.
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got10carz
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Re: Installing Chicago auxiliary transmission
I don't know if this would work or not. Put in a TT cross shaft. Fab a spacer where it bolts to the frame, this would compensate for the difference in the height of the cam. In my mind it would lower the shaft between 1" and1 1/2".