As an end note: the tranny was removed and the bearing retainer was replaced with one Jerry located on ebay.

A couple of notes: The Shop Manual said the steering wheel grommet needed to be moved. It did not. It also said the battery needed to be removed. It did, but only to be able to get to the bolts holding the cross member to the passenger side frame rail. However, no mention was made of removing the cross member, which we did in order to drop the tranny.

However, the Blue Funk is back on the road without a leaking tranny with a Big Thanks to Jerry and my stepson-in-law Tim!


Dave
The Blue Funk: a '51 3100 4 OTF with a '57 235
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