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If there are enough guys that want to use the Vovlo unit I can make any shaft and spline needed. HI, If you use the Volvo unit you will need 12 volts for the coil. When the PV544 came out a year or so later, it was a four-speed.
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My first car was a Volvo PV444 and it was three-speed. Ralph, if it's a three-speed, I think it's a 444. Disregard my question above and I'll sit in the corner and be quietīy Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Friday, Aug03:37 pm: Well, I guess if I had clicked the links provided, I would have seen that Hap has already addressed the S2D ODs.
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Roger, talk to these people, they have definitely done driveshaft conversions for T or A fordsĪnyone ever used the overdrive from the 50's that were on the BW 3-speeds in Fords and Studebakers? I've got an extra one that I've been eye-balling and wondered if its been done before. Neighbor Gene and I own a Nash Rambler 3-speed with OD that has been modified for a T. If only we could come up with a practical second gear in the planetary. Even sacrilegious guys like me have our limits. Neither a Ruckstell nor any other aux tranny I've seen will fix this, without going to a separate 3-speed sliding gear tranny. Sliding gear trannies of the era were 3:1, 2:1 and 1:1. We have 2.75:1 low, which is just an ugly compromise. Here's one of my 3 Langbeins:Ī real thorny drawback of the T is the lack of a gear between low and direct. BTW, Roger, I have a Volvo 444 or 544 3-speed you can have for the cost of shipping.Īs for location, I think back at the diffy is better than in the middle of the drive shaft, especially if you don't have a '26 block/hogshead connection. Mickey told me the Volvo/Laycock has the advantage of no neutral or freewheeling. My 10:7 BW overdrive with 4:1 diffy is a pretty good combo.
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Not only would you have to pay over $1K plus shipping for an OD from him, but wait for months and months. He repaired my B-W overdrive driveshaft housing several years ago, and has done other work for me. I don't know a lot of machinists, but Mickey Gustafson of Bakersfield Volvo overdrive fame is one of the best. With a 10 tooth pinion, I think it would make a great poor man's ruxtell - though not era correct.īy Ricks - Surf City on Friday, Aug11:16 am: Don't really like to weld them together, maybe an extra bearing in the front mounting flange for the overdrive?Īnyone who has seen the innards/been there/done that?
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There are still many more of them around, if I just figure out how to connect a loose output shaft from the gearbox with a front part of a drive shaft. I was surprised to find the output shaft from the gearbox so long that it protruded almost all the way through the overdrive unit? I had expected some more straightforward type of coupling at the front, just like the rear, but with this design I would have to have the output shaft from the gearbox too, to make the overdrive function - and it was stuck in the box, not enough time to disassemble that unit & to home I went without the overdrive. so I asked the seller if I could take just the overdrive part. $65 was cheap, but there was no way I could fit that greasy chunk of junk in the packed family sedan all the 800 miles home. I saw an 80's Volvo transmission at a swapmeet when on vacation last month. Now, I'm not going to start competition with the great guys in Bakersfield, but just thinking of the shipping costs back and forth to California makes me interested in figureing out if it's practical/possible to make one for myself. I've read about the Bakersfield overdrives made by cutting the driveshaft tube & welding flanges for an overdrive - see pictures & discussion in those threads: Volvo/Laycock overdrive in the driveshaft - howto?īy Roger Karlsson on Friday, Aug09:47 am: Model T Ford Forum: Volvo/Laycock overdrive in the driveshaft - howto? Volvo/Laycock overdrive in the driveshaft - howto?