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transmission
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:15 pm
by andre
I need a transmission for my 1951 M37.
does anyone know where I can get one or recommend where I can get mine rebuilt?
thank you in advance
andre
Re: transmission
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:36 pm
by MSeriesRebuild
andre wrote:I need a transmission for my 1951 M37.
does anyone know where I can get one or recommend where I can get mine rebuilt?
thank you in advance
andre
We offer rebuild service, send us a e-mail via the contact us link on the website below if we can help.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:12 am
by Cal_Gary
XM708 might have a spare t/o tranny for you-he's in Vermont. Also, VPW just shipped a few back from OCONUS-might be pricey though.
Gary
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:27 pm
by xm708
thanks for the plug gary. andre came up the other day and bought a tranny from me. I was glad I took the cover off because the one I was going to sell had the syncros grenaded in it. by the way has anybody here seen an m37 tranny with a solid shifter ? This tranny has a solid shifter and it does not come apart. it was in a 1951 US airforce m37 w/w but could this be a canadian tranny is there such a creature ? oh charles any ideas ???
curious in VT
ed
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:16 pm
by MSeriesRebuild
The Canadian trucks use a stub shaft with the bolt on shift levers like the US models. Many civilian trucks with the same transmissions use a solid shift lever. I would imagine this one had been swapped out for a shift lever from a civilian Dodge truck of the era.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:11 am
by xm708
thanks charles . are the guts the same inside the transmissions do you know ?
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:15 am
by MSeriesRebuild
xm708 wrote:thanks charles . are the guts the same inside the transmissions do you know ?
The Canadian trucks have an ACME transmission, totally different from the New Process units that were used in the US trucks. I have 1 ACME laying around, haven't been in it, don't know its condition.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:17 am
by Cal_Gary
Hi Ed,
My pleasure! You've always helped me out so I thought I'd send you some business.
BTW, I found an excellent M37 Arctic top (with the oval back window) at the Lodi meet on Friday for $160-what a deal huh?
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:04 pm
by MSeriesRebuild
Cal_Gary wrote:Hi Ed,
My pleasure! You've always helped me out so I thought I'd send you some business.
BTW, I found an excellent M37 Arctic top (with the oval back window) at the Lodi meet on Friday for $160-what a deal huh?
M37 arctic tops don't have the oval back window, they have a rectangular sliding window. What you have is a CCKW retrofit top. That's why the cheap price tag was on it. Good condition genuine M37 arctic tops will bring in the $2,000-$2,500 range.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:02 pm
by xm708
Gary,
glad you got the top cheap regardless if it is an artic top, metal top, plastic top as long as you like it. If I could find somebody to pay 2500 for a top I would retire tomorrow !!!!!! thanks again gary.
ed
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:53 am
by Cal_Gary
Well Charles, my education continues! I wasn't in the market for a hard top to begin with, but the condition of this one was too good to pass up, and I also like the look of the oval window. That's what I get for assuming-I've seen a couple dozen M37s with the oval hard top so my assumption was that the oval top was M37-specific.
Thanks!
Gary
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:28 am
by MSeriesRebuild
xm708 wrote:Gary,
glad you got the top cheap regardless if it is an artic top, metal top, plastic top as long as you like it. If I could find somebody to pay 2500 for a top I would retire tomorrow !!!!!! thanks again gary.
ed
If you have an excellent condition arctic top for sale, all you need to do is put the word out there in the right place, we just sold one a while back for $2,000.