Re: [AMC-list] b-w air coold trans cover

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

Oh yeah, it WILL overheat without it in more moderate weather! I don't have an extra, but you could just take a piece of cardboard and cut something close, then mark/trim it right, use as a pattern to make one. I recall there being an indentation at one spot, but that shouldn't affect airflow much. Not having a cover will! Maybe you'll get lucky and someone will have a spare though...

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Date: 21 Nov 2009 08:56:49 -0000
From: das24rules@xxxxxxxxx

anyone got one of them little covers that goes over the bell for the air
cooled b-w trans in a 63 american? mine is nowhere to be found. it was all
screwed up anyway. wasnt even good for a pattern to make another one. i seem
to recall that those trans will overheat without that cover. i have put about
3-400 miles on mine, pulling these nice northwest mountain passes and all with
the car. im not sure whats a safe temp for those trans, but i recall on more
modern trans, under 230* your ok? i have one of thos i.r. temp guns, and it
has ben NOWHERE near that. less than 160 usually. granted, its pretty cold
air here right now. i need to get one found for it, because its starting to
get that time when ice, and snow and all will get up in there too...


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