Old thermo fan installed. We’ll have to see if it is more quiet than the flex fan.
This is the speedometer gear on the original ’79 TH350. I’ll be moving it to the ’83 TH350C when I swap back the original engine in the winter of ’26/’27. Until then I’ll live with the incorrect speedometer reading. It’s roughly 20 kpm fast. It’s too much bother to re and re the driveshaft and trans tail shaft housing and all the underneath work that involves, but I’ll see how the work goes this winter. I have a number of upgrades for the ’66 Stude and not too much on the Chevy except for fitting in the Caprice cassette radio and maybe getting the floor covered with sound deadening material. Oh yes, and getting the seats re-upholstered, installing a new condenser and getting the AC operable. Not to mention the rebuild on the old 350!
Trans case clean-up finished.
Built a little dolly to move the trans easily. A bit of a grunt getting it off the work-bench and onto the dolly. I actually put it on my pneumatic work seat and then lowered it to the bottom and then slipped if onto the dolly. Can’t be too careful at 79. The back isn’t what it used to be. I”ll tuck the TH350 trans away – just in case…
A very successful test drive. The lock up converter works OK 🙂 and the engine is running fine – the heater is also working fine now. I had mistakenly attached the its ground at the starter to the starter solenoid connection – wonder I didn’t blow something up! And the engine is a whole lot quieter with the original thermo fan. So I’ll buy a new thermal unit, paint it up and use it.
Next: more bugs.