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As per our PM message, this should be a real interesting trip ! My injections went well, so I should be in less pain and able to withstand a long trip like this.

Once you bust up that housing (it is a real pain, that cast iron does not like to break ! ) and remove all those fun little bolts, the transmission slides out like butter. Then your left looking at that poor housing you had to destroy and cleaning up all that spilled transmission fluid. Oh...

Sorry no. You need the "C" MWO applied for that. The "A" and "B" MWO is just converting a 302M transmission to a 303M unit. Basically adding two clutch plates to the front drum assembly, and installing a larger front servo. Yours was probably still in good condition so they left it in. I was...

Duuane loaded up my truck with the 303M I bought from him with this beasty. I asked him at the time if he wanted to sell it. He just laughed. :cry:

Hey Duuane, are you moving all your stuff from the Vancouver house to your main home ?

Any HydraMatic from 1953 on will have this servo. I am at the clinic waiting for my procedure and thought I would check in.

So Thursday I'm going in for a "Spinal Nerve Root Block Injection" . This will lay me up for a day or two. Also, my wife has been after me to finish the Gazebo in the backyard. I need to finish the roof panels. That should take a few days. So, this week and a bit of the next week I won't get...

Before I start on the rear servo rebuild, I have some really interesting news. As many of you know I collect Military manuals. All types, but especially ones with Automatic transmissions in them. Well I just bought another copy of the "TM 9-8025-2" ( an original June 1957) which makes four...

Hey, are you really attached to that main case ? I could use one as one of mine has that nasty crack in it.

OK, here's an update on that front servo mod. Yes this 1953 servo will fit and work just fine in our 303M transmission. So if you want extra braking power going down hills than get yourself this servo. I found two more in my pile of parts. One I had thrown in the metal recycle bin. Saw it and...

Hey plowboy, you out there today? I was looking at the main housing end gasket in the kit you sent me. This gasket will fit either the 301MG or the 303M transmission. That tells me there was probably a "supplemental" gasket kit made for use on the 303M transmission. So instead of looking for a...

Well you should get some credit as you sold me one of those 303M transmissions. :) Now If I could only find a few more. Do you have any leads ?

The gasket company I'll try and have make up the gaskets needs a "minimum" order. So there should be extras left after I keep what I want. About the thrust-washers, they are standard HydraMatic parts. Any 1940 to 1956 HydraMatic will have the same thrust-washers. So any repair book would show...

I know, I know . I feel really bad about that. I just have no room ! I'm about to have even less room once the old shipping container is gone. I promised my wife I would get rid of it once the shop was built. That was 4 years ago now. The problem is I had to settle for a much smaller shop due to...

On another little modification I'm trying, is replacing the front servo with a 1953 model HydraMatic. This servo has a really neat little valve built in called the "overrun control valve" . This valve prevents the front band from slipping when descending grades when the transmission is in 3rd...

Here's the gaskets I will try and have made up.

Surprise ! I found six NOS bands yesterday. Four front bands and two rear bands. I got these back when I was working at the surplus shop. Too bad I didn't get more rear bands. I also found eighteen NOS "selective" thrust-washers . I'm missing a #1 and a #5 thrust-washer to have a complete...

Took care of a few small projects today. One was replacing the oil drain pan plugs with nice stainless-steel ones. I had to use a 3/4" pipe tap and cut down almost to the end of the tap. Then I used a 3/4" "straight" pipe tap to finish out the hole threads. The new plugs had a "Straight" thread...

Funny that you posted this today. This morning, I just recovered four gaskets in almost perfect condition from my other reduction unit and made a template of the large gasket using craft paper and some roll-on ink. That "BB" gasket is for the rear pump unit. There are three gaskets on the...

I spent too much time cleaning and painting parts to rebuild the rear servo, which was my planned component rebuild for today. So instead, I decided to replace the bushing in the "oil delivery sleeve" . Now in most HydraMatic rebuild manuals they say to buy a whole new sleeve assembly and forget...