350C Reverser Rebuild

[andregrondin]

Hi !

Very nice job you did there ! great work !!

[440 iron popper]

Here is a pic of the rear crossbar being turned after welding up the worn areas. Will be posting more pics later. The reverser rebuild has turned into a complete crawler rebuild almost. Anyway I am having fun and learning alot about these crawlers.

Barry

Hooo Very good! I need to do that for my 440. Nice job. What kind of welding did you use? Rod, Mig? If you have some details about that, it's a thing that I need to do in a near future! Thanks

[andregrondin]

Hi !

Good idea and also good thing you have good equipement !!
that is a nice lathe !!!

[BSims66173]

I realize it has been a while since I started this post and see there are a few questions that have been ask. Just to let everyone know, the clutch arm was the problem. Once I got it back together, it runs great, and has plenty of power for what I need. All of the welding that was done was stick welding and all of the machine work was done on the machines I have in my shop. I am very blessed to have a wife who is supportive of my hobbies and allows me to have the things I have, Bless her heart for having met me years ago. The only thing I did not go into was the tansmission and the finals and that was a mistake not to. Not long after getting her back running, one of the finals went out and had to pull it off twice to get it fixed right. Learn from your mistakes is all I will say about that. Anyway, it is all fixed now and I use it occasionally. It was a very fun project and I am always amazed at how many years ago, men could make something like this, although not very complicated, but with very close tolerences with the machines and tooling of that era. My hat is off to these people. Thanks for all the replies and complimants and if I can ever help anyone here please let me know.