Crossmember #3

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edited November -1 in HUDSON
OK. Down to basically on the last step in getting my transmission and clutch out. I have been struggling with the brake lever and just plain cold in the unheated garage.



Please help identifiy Crossmember #3. I am laying under the car on a creeper. My feet are pointed to the rear. I am looking up at the bottom of the transmission as it seems to sit on a rubber pad.



Is that Crossmember #3? And the bolts I am to remove are at the outside ends?

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    The rubber pad is vulcanized between a plate on each bottom & top I believe. The bottom is bolted to the cross member with two 5/16x 3/4 or 1 inch bolts. A 3/8 cap screw goes up through the center and bolts it to the trans. or bell housing. Some cross members have a hole in the bottom plate to get to this bolt some dont. The cross member is riveted in on each side unless some one has cut them out and bolted it in. Be sure and jack the rear of engine up a little bit and support it.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Yep, thats number 3. On your car there were two versions of how the tranny bolted to the crossmember. On early production units,there were two bolts that held the rubber tranny mount to the crossmember. On later production models there are 3 bolts. Two go on the outside of the mount and bolt through the crossmember and have a nut on the opposite side. Then there is a deep hole in between the two outer holes. This is for the bolt that bolts directly onto the trtansmission. You may or may not have this version.Also there is NO provision for crossmember removal from below on your car. When hydramatics first appeared in 1951, crossmember number three could be unbolted and the transmission removed from beneath the car. On non hydramatic jobs it was the same crossmember as earlier stepdowns.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Thanks everyone.



    I will get back under her tomorrow to finish the job. I seem to remember that my crossmember is solid all across the bottom and that is a bolt at each end of the mounting bracket and pad. I will get the brush in there and do a better job of cleaning it out.



    This would have gone a lot faster if I had a heated garage..........
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