I'm heading to my first Stude Intl meet in Springfield! :-) (combined with family vacation so only Thursday at the Stude show). Obviously will be hitting the swapmeet with great interest for my '57 GH project.
Question: do the adjustment tools for the Flightomatic typically show up at these? Does anyone have one to bring they'd care to sell? (we could swap cell numbers or something and link up there... I'm staying at the Drury Inn Wed night and Thurs night).
I have two units I rebuilt but they are the ONLY two I've ever done, and I'd like to have the Stude tool for that internal band adjustment instead of the guessing game the 1961 Motor Manual has (and I don't have a torque wrench that goes <25 in-lbs, either). Since they will be in storage until I get the rest of my chassis and engine rebuilt, I'd really like to have confidence in the adjustments, fill the units with Dexron for storage, and have better odds of it being correct when I finally do get it installed and try it out for the first time in a year or so.....
Which reminds me too; I had my torque converter rebuilt; It has a plastic cap on the hub to seal out dust, etc.. but should this have some Dexron poured in and swished around just to "coat things" while it sits? Or do rebuilders lube these, anticipating long periods of storage, as a matter of course? (done by a major rebuilder, I recall racks and racks of cardboard boxes of torque converters stacked in their warehouse area)
Thanks!
Question: do the adjustment tools for the Flightomatic typically show up at these? Does anyone have one to bring they'd care to sell? (we could swap cell numbers or something and link up there... I'm staying at the Drury Inn Wed night and Thurs night).
I have two units I rebuilt but they are the ONLY two I've ever done, and I'd like to have the Stude tool for that internal band adjustment instead of the guessing game the 1961 Motor Manual has (and I don't have a torque wrench that goes <25 in-lbs, either). Since they will be in storage until I get the rest of my chassis and engine rebuilt, I'd really like to have confidence in the adjustments, fill the units with Dexron for storage, and have better odds of it being correct when I finally do get it installed and try it out for the first time in a year or so.....
Which reminds me too; I had my torque converter rebuilt; It has a plastic cap on the hub to seal out dust, etc.. but should this have some Dexron poured in and swished around just to "coat things" while it sits? Or do rebuilders lube these, anticipating long periods of storage, as a matter of course? (done by a major rebuilder, I recall racks and racks of cardboard boxes of torque converters stacked in their warehouse area)
Thanks!
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