Ran out of daylight

 The main case of the transmission is all back together. The rear assembly will have to wait for the weekend.

Everything that we need

It might not be how everybody does it, but this way worked well to pull the 3-4 hub and slider assembly off of the mainshaft. The bearing separator did the trick and came in handy for several other steps while reassembling the mainshaft.

Once the mainshaft was disassembled, all the old hubs and sliders were discarded and the center bearing was driven out of the midplate.

First, second and third gears and the midplate were soaked in diesel fuel to clean them.

The midplate was media- and then glass bead-blasted before it was fitted with a new bearing and snap ring. 

It took a long time and a lot of money to assemble all the preferred parts to put this back together, but the super nice parts fit up well and the original gears turn freely with no excessive play on the cleaned mainshaft.

By the end of the day, the gear train was assembled onto the mainshaft with new bearing, hubs, sliders, snap rings and synchronizers.

This is ready to install back into the housing.

...and then just pull off the hub

After the snap ring is removed, this 3-4 hub and slider assembly is supposed to just slide off.

Nope.

Didn't get very far this weekend before we needed to buy a tool to press this off. Be right back.

Wait is over

The universal joints needed to install the half shafts and connect the differential to the wheels have been unavailable for several months. After a long wait, these are finally installed.

This installation was not a very pleasant task. Doing this with the car on jacks with the body on the frame would be twice as difficult.

Hobby Lobby

The stamp came in for the thermo strip on the fan clutch. A quick trip to Hobby Lobby for a stamp pad. Pretty sure there was no one else in that store to get something for the old car they were working on.

This turned out well and is set aside for later.

Cheater

Next in the queue was the cooling fan and fan clutch. These fan clutches are very expensive to replace and fail often, so it's lucky that the one on this car is in great shape — save for its looks.

The body was media- and then bead-blasted to make it look shiny and new while the five-blade fan was powder-coated gloss black. This is the only thing on the car that was powder-coated, but it seemed like a good place to cheat so this is more durable than it would be under paint.

The only task left is to buy a rubber stamp to replace the "This Side Up" marking on the thermo strip on the front.

Broke as a joke

There was just enough money in the budget to allow for the purchase of a set of keys and springs direct from Paul Cangialosi to build out the transmission sliders and hubs. These sell out like hotcakes, but he was nice enough to help me out and send a set along. What a super nice guy.

After that, the small 1/4-20 bolts that attach all the ignition shielding to the block and heads were electroplated. There is one missing, but reproductions are available.

It might seem silly to worry about saving these, but these have unique markings and are very visible under the hood, so it was important to get these able to be reused.

My father would roll his eyes at saving rusty bolts, but the little things matter in this sort of work. Honestly, this might actually be one of the big things when all is said and done.

Once you see how this goes together on the engine and how showy this set of parts are, you'll see what I mean.