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| | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 | I was enjoying a favorite passtime... Wandering the Pick-N-Pull. At the exit, there was a 3 spd trans on a table, marked as from a 32 coupe. It had a second lever over the output shaft that I couldn't identify... Looked like an overdrive lever, but I'm not sure.
Casting numbers are these:
Case: 590532
Shifter Housing (floor shift): 590591 7
Other lever housing: 367950 or 867950?
Is this a 3 spd floor shift with overdrive? It is definitely for a torque tube rear. If it is an OD 3spd, would it bolt to my 49 216?
I know, I shoulda taken a picture with my phone.... I never remember to do that.
Current fleet (subject to change w/o notice) \'49 GMC 3/4-Ton , 60 Austin Healey Frog-eye Sprite (some assembly required), 2011 Dodge Avenger, 2015 Jeep Cherokee. No, they don't all run. My other ride is a (B737)no, (B767)no, A320.... Update... was Embraer E190, now Boeing B787. Knowledge is a wonderful thing, but ignorance means you don't know you can't do something.
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 171 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 171 | The original 32 Chevy passenger cars had a "FREE-WHEEL" device, when ingaged it would coast when you let off the gas, this was used in most American Passenger cars in 1932-1933,I heard of stories of a 1933 Chevy hitting 85 mph down hill ,the man that told me about this[said he was young and foolish at the time] was going on that long hill into Utica,NY ,now route 12, when he met two trucks one doing down hill the other going up! some how he got by them at the bottom of the hill he disengaged the free-wheeling never to use it again, I believe it became against the law to use them.
It could be used in your 49.
Chrysler with Borg-Warner, design the over-drive for the 1934 Air-Flow, and later it was used it Chrysler's that had the floor shift. GM was slow to use the O-D's there where some after market over-drives available for Chevies, in the 40's I almost think one showed up on this sight for sale. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 843 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 843 | Highflyer, that 590532 transmission case was used in various applications in 1932-36 Chevy cars and pickup trucks. In fact, I'm looking for a 590532 empty case right now for my '36 pickup. What price was on that transmission? Ray email [email protected]
Ray
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 | Hi Yar.
It's at the Pick-N-Pull yard. All manual RWD transmissions are $99.99 + $25 core... $124.99 + tax Canadian. Their number is (403) 279-7777. I don't know if they ship.
Current fleet (subject to change w/o notice) \'49 GMC 3/4-Ton , 60 Austin Healey Frog-eye Sprite (some assembly required), 2011 Dodge Avenger, 2015 Jeep Cherokee. No, they don't all run. My other ride is a (B737)no, (B767)no, A320.... Update... was Embraer E190, now Boeing B787. Knowledge is a wonderful thing, but ignorance means you don't know you can't do something.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 843 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 843 | Thanks for the info Highflyer. It's quite a surprise that a dismantler would have such an old piece.
Ray
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