What are you working on?

A couple more. The last one is what I like to refer to as the "Dim/Dimmer switch". :D (Its a 6V system).

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The back lit gauge system also lights up the whole rear of the dash....for easy diagnoses if required to be under there. ;) The "Dim and Dimmer" switch.....like it! :D
 
I finished up the dash wiring today, got most of the rest of the wiring done. I just need to wire in the headlights and front marker lights (I'm waiting on the LED headlight conversion and the chrome parts to return from the chroming shop). I received the rebuilt engine, transmission and rear diff center section. Then I got it up on stands and removed one front spring and one rear spring. I'll be dropping them off at Michigan Wisconsin Spring & Brake so they can be used as patterns for a new set.

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I got the engine bolted down. I had to remove the transmission from the bell housing to install it. I did that for two reasons, the first is it just wont go in the car with it on the bell. It makes the assembly to long to be able to swing it in without removing the steering column and the clutch and brake pedals. The other is, by taking the trans off of the engine I don't have to remove the shifter to install it.

After the engine was set in place I just grabbed the transmission buy the shifter, carried it into the car through the passenger side door and slid it in from above. This is really the only way to do it anyway. The cross member does not come out of the frame and the transmission sits above that cross member.

Next I had to repair the transmission mount. The rubber in the mount was oil soaked and completely deteriorated. There is no buying a transmission mount for a 1933 Pontiac no matter how good your parts guy is. I had to fix what I have so I drilled out the rivets, removed the junk soft rubber, cut some rubber out of some old belting we found at the local welding shop, and welded the mount back together.

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There is no buying a transmission mount for a 1933 Pontiac no matter how good your parts guy is.
You never even asked. :(

:bwuhaha:

Sad thing is, there probably was one upstairs in that parts hoard at LaFreniere's. They threw out tons of stuff dating all the way back after Murray ran it into the ground. No one could be bothered to figure out what any of it was, other than by eyeballing: "Yes, this is definitely another WS6 snowflake" etc.
 
Thanks. I used my gasket making punch set. I wish I would have taken a before picture so you could have seen just how wasted it was.

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Thanks. I used my gasket making punch set. I wish I would have taken a before picture so you could have seen just how wasted it was.

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That must have taken a while....I know the strength of that belting. ;)
 
Not at all. Sharp cones and 1 good hit with the hammer.

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I've been busy working on the Pontiac but haven't posted many pictures so I'll take this opportunity to bring things up to date. I found shock bushings at Steel Rubber Products and had new springs made by my former employer, Michigan Wisconsin Spring and Brake. I had to press the shock bushing pins out then back in. I also had to weld up the shock arms where the bushing pin had warn into them. I installed the brake light switch and adjusted it.

I also got a box of "pretty parts" back from the chrome shop! Man did they do a nice job!

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Rear gear, drive shaft, trans mount, rear springs, shocks, and diff assembled this afternoon.

Installing the shaft started with making a gasket for the ball trunnion. I had to slide the torque tube into the output yoke then slide the gasket and truninnon ball up and bolt it down. Then I had to slide the axle housing forward on the springs lining up the studs through the center section holes. After that its just like assembling any rear diff. Notice the swank custom ring gear? The pinion and ring gears were custom made so the old girl can pull highway speeds now. Look how they used to attach the ring gear to the carrier. Rivets! That's how they did it. Interesting that the axle rolls in the castings that the u-bolts go over. The axle needs to rotate as the suspension moves up and down do to the lack of a rear u-joint. The pinion gear connects directly to the transmission joint.

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That's a very interesting rear set-up....especially the whole axle assembly rotating due to no rear U-joint.
 

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