Transmission rebuild

Here is the original 1947 Hobart Transmission, with a bad gear.  By casting numbers and the help of ebay, it appears to be the same as a 1940's plymouth car.  

The input shaft has a different spline than the plymouth, hopefully it will interchange.

After years of power hopping the case couldn't handle the abuse.  Conveniently there was a welder close by.

 

The bad gear

The second gear from the left has shelled out almost all of its teeth.

Here is my first attempt at using a electrolysis tank,  after a night of soaking the rust has been completely dissolved

Phase 1 (Tear down)

4-1-15

 It looks rough but at least all the hoods are straight.  The only thing that would be nice is if the didn't use the one of a kind fenders as battering rams.

With the help of my best worker James, we started to clean out mounds of sand, mouse nest and the occasional pile of coon S**T  to get the old girl ready to come back to her former glory. 

serial # DWT 53

The Beginning

This is a 1947 Hobart Weldmobile.  It was used in a local mining operation, until the mid 80's when its transmission went out.  So long story short this thing has been sitting longer than I've been alive.