If I am thinking of the right nuts, my recollection is that, yes, you can
pull it apart about one-quarter to one-half inch before the plunger catches.
That, it seems, may be enough to get the nuts started. Make sure the oil is
drained first (or it will be drained after).
on 7/11/01 10:27 AM, Ruggiero Larry Lt Col AFRC/XPXS at
Larry.Ruggiero@AFRC.AF.MIL wrote:
> Hi gang-- quick question. In cleaning and prepping my overdrive tranny for
> installation, I noticed that 2 of 8 nuts are missing on the
> overdrive-to-adaptor joint. There's not enough room between the end of
> their studs and the adaptor housing to thread new nuts back on. So I
> checked my factory manual, which basically says that, when disassembling the
> overdrive from the tranny, remove those nuts from the studs and pull the
> overdrive assembly off the adaptor (after removing the U-joint flange, which
> I already have). Is it really that simple to pull the O-drive off the
> adaptor enough (after backing off the remaining 6 nuts) to create enough
> space to install the 2 nuts? Those tranny and O-drive illustrations look
> awful complicated and scary...
>
> LtCol Larry Ruggiero
> HQ AFRC/XPXS
> Robins AFB, GA
> comm (478) 327-0227
> dsn 497-0227
> fax xxx-0813
>
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