amount of oil on wet clutch

[Deleted User]

how much and what kind of oil goes in a 1950 Hudson wet clutch?

MikeWA

1/3 pint is the amount.



Various vendors sell clutch fluid, but several on here say they just run straight Deltron ATF with no ill effects.

Browniepetersen

Just finished doing this "wet clutch" project on my new 50 Hudson commodore sedan two hours ago. The material I used was from a local collector and it was old and had written on it "For Hudson Wet clutch." Our local Hudson folks would use nothing else. I under stand it is available from club sources (KGap or from the Club Store cannot remember ?). The amount is right as stated. Plan to have the manual there with you when you do the process and it takes a bit of time. Not for the faint at heart???



By the way, a tool like this helps with putting the fluid in. And, I need to mention that the soda in the back ground was a joke given to me by one of his local supporters as a rub.....

MikeWA

Did you see the guy at the swap meet at National who had a whole bunch of Permatex clutch fluid? He was selling for $3 per can, or 2 for $5. I stocked up.



Another tip- The clutch won't take the fluid very fast, so you have to make sure it won't run back out of the hole. The hole is 1/2 NF thread. I measured the outside diameter of various black tubing at Napa, and found one that was just about perfect- in fact, it was a slight interferance fit, so I screwed it into the hole. Don't go all the way in, or it may seal against the flywheel. Into the top went the business end of my trusty turkey baster, with the bulb removed. This makes a nice funnel, and reservoir, so you can let the fluid go in as slowly as it wants. I didn't spill a drop!

oldhudsons

I use a piece of rubber tubing, tapered at the one end to go into the pressure plate hole, and have a small funnel at the other end so can slowly pour it down the tube. Being rubber, flexible & easily moved around starter or whatever else one may have, such as a vacuum tank on an older model.