Ace-Garageguy

Sorry. But she had a loving home, and gave love in return. It doesn't get much better than that.

PM'd.

BINGO:

Project your will as in "these aren't the droids you're looking for" and have an easier path in life.

Air cooled transmissions were used behind just about anything under 150 HP...including flathead and OHV V8 engines.

Build or buy a really cool 1:1, most of us could for what we spend on models and supplies, and the time we spend here.

Very possibly true, but there's no question a stamped steel, finless, machine-welded torque converter shell would be cheaper than a heavily-finned, aluminum die-cast, bolted-together-by-hand shell of the same size. It would be very interesting to read the relevant SAE documents of the period, but I'm not going down that particular rabbit hole any time soon.

Another night of low humidity and temps in the high 60s is forecast here; good sleeping weather.

Just more trash in mine, and a nice pile of dog poo right by the mailbox.

Numbers are hard.

OK...IIRC...there were two versions of the early Ford-O-Matic, one liquid cooled, one "air cooled". Don't ask me why. The aircooled torque converter has cooling fins cast into it and takes a different bellhousing IIRC. I THINK that what's called out as a "TORQUE CONVERTER AIR INTAKE" in your instructions is actually a small air-scoop-looking thing, for the finned torque converter. I USED to know a lot about early Ford automatics as they're essentially the Borg Warner 35 (again IIRC) and many of the parts fit early Jag automatics. There were times I used Ford-O-Matic parts in Jags when there were no US local Jag slushbox parts sources. It looks to me as though you've interpreted the instructions correctly. WARNING: I USUALLY KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. IN THIS CASE I'M NOT 100% SURE, SO THIS INFO MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. EDIT: I have a lot of older reference books and shop manuals that cover most mainstream cars of this era. I'll try to remember to look this up fer ya, but in the meantime, I'd say go with what ya got. If you get it wrong, only one in ten million people will know...and they'll all be dead soon anyway. EDIT 2: Studebaker and Rambler used similar air-cooled BW autoboxes, and had the air intake for the torque-converter on the bottom front of the bellhousing, facing forward....again IIRC. EDIT 3: I haven't been able to find a photo of the Ford-O-Matic showing the air intake online. Maybe one of my old service manuals will. EDIT 4: Getting closer. Found this reference on HAMB: "...air-cooled Fordomatic, small case. The air intake for cooling is just below the starter 'hump'. Had a finned-aluminum multi-piece torque convertor." and this: "if ever there was a 100% perfect automatic transmission, it was the 1951-57 cast iron, air-cooled Fordomatics. With three forward speeds these indestructible workhorses would outlast the entire car. It was only when they cheapened them with water cooling lines, aluminum cases, and missing front pumps did they have a shorter (and more expensive) life expectancy.

Contact cement is the ideal adhesive in many situations, if you understand where and how to use it.

Other civilizations on other worlds look at us and scratch their heads in wonder.

That's been Microsoft's model for decades. Now it's the model for lotsa software, including what runs a high percentage of vehicles. The world is changing, and not all for the better. "Technology" is a wonderful tool, but a side effect is that it's allowing many people to be lazier, sloppier, and less capable. And when you try to call attention to most of this stuff, the almost universal reaction is "lalalalalala everything is OK and I don't care anyway lalalalalalala don't be so doom-and-gloomy lalalalalalalala..."

So far this week and last, multiple deliveries have made it here on time or only slightly late, even one that got a nice free trip to Arizona for some reason. One of my ongoing local problems has been misdelivery by fill-in drivers when my regular carrier, who is great, has a day off. This week I met a new off-day carrier when I happened to be in front of the house when he came by. As I had been tracking and was expecting several packages, I walked out to his truck to see what we had. Everything sorted together in a big plastic PO box, and the young driver seemed intelligent, organized, and capable. Hoping this will be the off-day going forward.

Hearts and minds have roles in decision-making, but in the end, logic and rationality should always prevail.

Now is a good time to do something productive, so I think I'll sign off.

A Consul Capri perhaps...

Sitting all day isn't conducive to physical fitness and overall health.

Or just a couple of greasy-hands engineers who were conversant with failure modes of DRY belts. Anyone who's been around vehicles with "rubber" timing belts knows oil or even antifreeze contamination is death to them, rapidly accelerating their failure rates. Sure, these new "wet" belts are formulated to resist degradation while immersed in oil, but for whatever reason, whether non-spec material from "offshore" suppliers or something else, IT'S NOT WORKING. Also, one cited additional problem is that, as the belts degrade in the engine oil, the particles sloughing off of them form a sticky sludge that can plug up oil-pickup screens, leading to loss of oil pressure and catastrophic engine failure. This is a growing problem with ivory-tower engineers who have zero practical experience, think that if they can design something in CAD that's all they have to do, and who put 100% faith in artificially accelerated "testing" programs that simply cannot accurately simulate REAL TIME. And the push in engineering circles towards "zero prototypes", where no physical testing is done prior to releasing designs for production, with all design validation and testing done in "computer simulations" will make problems like this more and more frequent.

Anything worth doing is worth procrastinating about indefinitely.

Thanks fer the reminder. I need a set of those for a shelved project.

Kit-car builders, the full-scale kind, often use poor quality fasteners and other materials, and make questionable choices when solving relatively simple build problems.

Great to see one of these built well. Love that kandy too.

Shape-shifters can be hard to catch in the greased-pig contest.