Reminds me of my 65 Impala convertible with bench seats, 4 speed, 350hp engine, special ordered.. I installed a Hurst Competition Plus Shifter, in it, twice. First time due to the reverse cable breaking, going through the tollway in Illinois, leaving me with 2 gears.. 2nd time because someone stole the first one.. Bought the chevy from my sister's neighbor in 72 for $400.. As you stated, 3rd gear took a lot of beating.. Got rid of the Chevy in 76, one of the big mistakes in life.
Gotta love the old manuals. Hard to believe relatively simple those transmissions actually were. Complex for the time, but look at a valve body in a modern transmission today and then back at this...WOW. As for O'Reily's now you need to get a feller from Tennessee and do something with him. You should do one of their commercials with VGG. VGG is who moved me over to them, and honestly? They blow away the other two big names in my area (and neither of those are the boys). :) For those that want to learn about a T5 (sorry Richard, hijacking here), check out Eric The Car Guy. He brought in Paul Cangialosi (he wrote the book on the T5) about 8 years ago. He showed Eric how to teardown and rebuild a T5 for his Fairmont project car. Ended up not using it because the car was going to develop way too much power for that T5, but wow was it interesting.
Mmmm Muncie 10 spline! Been in parts for almost 20 years and this has always been my favorite don’t know why but it will go into anything! It can be put to the fine spline GM’s in almost any application.
Oh boy, that took me back. I never learned automatics, and my dad wouldn't touch them. Did my share of manuals, though. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I've rebuilt a pleny of muncie 4 speeds with out the special tools you have the pin for the reverse lever has always been steel and it is a tappered pin. I never had much problem putting the ball bearing and spring back in for the reverse lever shaft.
Richard, for sealing the countershaft you may want to consider Loctite 577 Yellow instead of silicone to seal the shaft to the housing. Just another option.
I usually watch all Richards videos of rebuilding transmissions I’ll never own lol . Interesting all the same 😂. Like the manual transmission videos the most
Hello Richard and Teresa! It took me this long to find the new channel. I'm glad to see you are still making awesome videos! I hope Trent is also doing well! I cant wait to see what's next!
Richard dont know if you ever put a little heat to that gear. I have done that taking them off an putting it back on. Brings back a lot of memories heck i have a 22 that only has 2000 miles on since rebuilt. Thats for sharing. Its cool ti see some old school stuff.
That pin at 13:55 is tapered... it must only be driven out from the bottom as shown. I forget what the rise/run is [size 0?], but if that bore is boogered, there is just enough room to ream it and get a replacement pin to hold - ez duzit.
The reason for the taper on the sliders is so when in 1st gear, the rear 1-2 slider will not contact the reverse idler when in 1st gear! The trans will make a "clanky" noise in 1st gear when you start moving the vehicle. Some sliders are machined thinner from the groove, on the rear of the slider, where the shift fork goes, towards the reverse idler for that reason!
Don't have to remove that pin to get tail housing off. Just unbolt the housing and lift it off. The reverse gear will slide back enough that linkage arm will disconnect. Same going back together. Done it 100's of times.
I never knew that 62's came with a Muncie, My 62 SS with 300 HP SB came with a Borg Warner T10. And I did know the internals in side. A snapped tooth from 2nd gear got caught between 2nd and the cluster.
Muncie came out in 64. Warner T-10 in just about everything before 64. GM, Ford, Chrysler, and maybe AMC all used them. Borg Warner plant must have run 24-7 to try and keep up. Bill
I replaced second gear when I was 18. One tooth broke off! I don’t know how I managed such a job. It was on the garage floor with news papers soaking up the stinking oil.
Haven't had one of those apart in decades. I've got an interesting one that looks to be a major PIA to do: Warner T50 five speed from the late 70's. I need to find parts to do mine. Afraid to see what is inside. It is noisy. Bought it used.
Posi-lok pullers are the bomb Ive had a set for years and went to go look for another the other day and they have skyrocketed like everything else They lost their patent and now there's a knock off
THE SPEEDO GEARS COMES OFF VERY SIMPLE IN A PRESS ! UNDO THE MIDPLATE AND PUT THE WHOLE GEAR STACK IN A PRESS AND EVERYTHING COMES OFF IN 1 SHOT ! WATCH GEARBOX VIDEO ! HE IS THE MUNCIE MAN...NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN !!!!
I know that very well shaft was messed up. Had to get the cluster out first so I could clean the shaft were the bearings were bad to get the shaft out the back.
