Ok Deve,don't hold out on us, what's the solution for the 3 speed
Jeff Davis
'51 custom
>From: "Deve Krehbiel" <deve@wwwebservice.net>
>Reply-To: "Deve Krehbiel" <deve@wwwebservice.net>
>To: "J Forbes" <jforbes@primenet.com>, "Old Trucks List"
><oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Overdrive wonderings
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:57:30 -0500
>
>I just need an overdrive unit that I can use on a 235 with a Granny 4
>speed.
>Anyone have any ideas? I have heard of Brownie, but hearing about it and
>actually having a solution are two different things. Friend of mine has a
>nice solution for the 3 speeds, but for my 49 3/4 ton with a 4 on the
>floor,
>no luck.
>
>Deve
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "J Forbes" <jforbes@primenet.com>
>To: "Old Trucks List" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 11:28 AM
>Subject: [oletrucks] Overdrive wonderings
>
>
> > Dustin--
> >
> > An overdrive, granny gears, and 400hp...you don't ask for much, eh? :)
> >
> > Many years ago, a friend of mine had a 61 Chevy 40 series truck (1.5
> > ton), and he had a 396 in it, with a TH400, and it had a really steep
> > rearend gear...it would top out about 50 mph on the highway. He wound
> > up putting a 2 speed rearend out of a BIG truck in it (22" wheels, I
> > think)...but it still had the same gear ratio problem, because the extra
> > speed was a steeper gear. So, he put a Brownie auxiliary tranny in it,
> > but since the Brownie is a reductin box, he put it in BACKWARDS...so he
> > got about a 2:1 overdrive! That made it just fine for cruising on the
> > freeway.
> >
> > I'd suggest looking around at late model trucks, to see what they have
> > in the way of a granny gear 5 speed overdrive tranny. Beware hydraulic
> > clutches, though.
> >
> > Jim F
> > 59s in AZ
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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