Don't forget the M114..............
I have several of these transmissions in their origional storage cans as
spares. I opened one last summer..and installed it.......fresh GI rebuild
in Bobligan Germany in 1973..............works perfectly!....
Jon
At 05:16 AM 11/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Here it is 2000 and my 1941 Cadillac Hydramatic in my 1952 GMC M135 is
>working fine. All you have to do is read the manuals and understand that
>the trannys don't use atf, they use engine oil. Secondly, they are
>adjustable, and thirdly, they need to be used, or the bands tend to stick to
>the drums. They are a very durable transmission and difficult to break...
>My first experience with them was in 1963 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in sand
>bouncing up and down until I was smart enuf to put it in low hilly and stay
>in one gear and off we went.. My latest one was a firetruck and then a
dust
>control unit in a sawmill until last month and now it carries me and a
>Budweiser around my yard...Memphis Equipment had a controller for them years
>ago called the "REB power shift" It was a manual control for shifting, but
>took all the fun out of the tranny cuz you could predict the shifts... ha.
>Don,t let all these neophytes condemn a good tranny which served well in the
>Stuart Tank, the Chaffee tank, the M59 and M84 APC among others... RAM
>
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