Davids4Speeds specializes in re-building transmissions and shifters for 1960's and 1970's vintage cars.
After 30 years as a mechanic at A.O. Smith, David returned to the passion of his youth, drag cars, muscle cars, and race cars. This time he worked on the transmissions, returning worn out trannies to the tolerances needed for hard driving. Known for his attention to detail, he is known on eBay as Detail4spd.
Hello! Now we're back ready for assembly. Customers 1974 Corvette Transmission. Here is the case, the main case. You see it stamped 1974, the date code. And the VIN also indicates St. Louis, w The case has been sent out and bushed. It's a nice tight fit. It's 1000's press fit. The cluster has been installed. The end plays perfect on it. The case is nicely detailed. Ready for assembly. Here's the main shaft. It's a 26 spline input, 32 spline output. Customers opted to go with M22 gears. All new gears with torque lock sliders. It also has a cast iron mid plate. We've painted the mid plate to look al Aesthetically the customer wants it to look original. What t Especially with a big block car. And it strengthens it quite a bit. Here's the tail housing. It's got the 32 spline tail housing, heavy duty. It's all been nicely detailed. Ready for assembly. It's got the reverse s The seal and bus Side cover. Corrected side cover. The only upgrade we've done on t Original OEM bolts. All cleaned up and detailed. Gear reduction for the speedometer. Of course t Bering retainer. T Very good shape. Basically ready for assembly. Okay we're back. Got the transmission just about assembled. The last part we got to put on is the side cover. These are a little RTV. First of all I want to put a little gear lube in by the Cinco rings. The reason I They tend to be very sharp and hang up on the corner of the gear. So I put a little bit of that in before the final assembly. Then I'll use a Ultra Bray sealer on al Two reasons. Good adhesion. Low odor w You don't have to breathe the excessive chemicals. It's a good t By the way it's in second gear position right now to make the side cover go on easier. T Okay now for the side cover. I'll put it in second gear position. I Now I There we go. I've got OEM refoss fated bolts. I'll take it on for It's a half inch socket. Tighten it. Snug it across. I'll torque the cover and crank it. These are 5-16s bolts so they don'take much as far as torque. Okay. Now I just want to make sure the s I'll go into the defense. Reverse. Now I The yoke goes in nice. It's in the neutral position. It spins nicely. We're good to go. By the way, I use a competition grade gasket set. There's better quality gasket sets up there. A couple dollars more. It makes a difference. There we have it. All set. The next we'll pack it up. We're just going to build wood crate for it. And we'll go through the so we can idea how we create these babies up.