I thought someone mentioned that the Hydra-Matic was in the 47-55 truck, maybe I missed something or am thinking of another convoluted thread. This thing seems to has taken on a life of it's own, where a few pictures of original trucks would go a long way to resolve it. When it comes to compairing Chevrolet and GMC trucks I don't even want to get into that. That would add a whole new level of confusion to the kettle.
I'm not fortunate enough to have a '54, 3100 manual transmission truck in the barn that I can look at, since the enclosed drive shaft was still being used in '54 I just assumed that it still had the rear transmission support as all the earlier enclosed 1/2 ton trucks did.
Yes, this sort of nit-pickin' post will probably be boring to members that are just interested in getting their vehicle on the road and couldn't care less about the authenticity or originality of a restoration. But I'm not one of those.
The fact that I don't have an original 3105 panel or 3104 pickup sitting in my barn that I could crawl under and confirm that the frames are the same is the reason that I posted that Tim. As I said, from the few sketchy pictures that I've seen, they appear to be the same. I also haven't found any pictures of the manual transmissions in original '54 and '55 trucks, just as I haven't found any pictures of '55 1st. Hydramatic 3104's or 3604's.
and as usual, I can't open your: page%3D1&title=Hydra-Matic%20anyone%3F%20-%20The%20Stovebolt%20Forums&txt=no%20rear%20transmission%20mount&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13627552340156 link
or your: http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&key=e1b970c476aad3dffc4271e7911b4c7e&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stovebolt.com%2Fubbthreads%2Fubbthreads.php%3Fubb%3Dshowflat%26Number%3D922440%26page%3D4&v=1&libid=1362753748918&out=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.1954advance-design.com%2FDocuments%2FEngineeringFeatures%2Fslides%2Forig_Page39.html&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stovebolt.com%2Fubbthreads%2Fubbthreads.php%3Fubb%3Dpostlist%26Board%3D49%26page%3D1&title=Hydra-Matic%20anyone%3F%20-%20The%20Stovebolt%20Forums&txt=earlier%201%2F2%20ton%20Advance-Design%20trucks&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13627552781718 link.
Don't understand why you can't just cut and paste a link like this to the thread:
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/1954_3604_chevy_truck hasn't failed to work for me on anybody's computer or browser.
Denny G
