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The big find was that there was no lube in the casting at the front of the mainshaft like there should be. I'll be taking off the lube line fitting at the oil pump today to see if I have a clogged line or filter. It appeared that there had been no lube inside the mainshaft for many years.
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The factory drawing specifies a very thin gasket under the shift housing. This is important as the pivot for the dog bone needs to be centered so both the upper and lower ends can engage all of the transmission shift rods. Even though you are able to shift into some gears, the individual clearances with your transmission might not allow all gears to be engaged. Good luck. Tom Hartz, Kokomo, IN
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i was able to unbolt the 6 screws and the shifthousing came off, when gearbox is sitting in the car.
Mark the screws where they came from and reinstall same way, if my memory serves me right, they aren't all the same length !
In pic one you see it from inside. make shure to not damage the gasket's.
the round recesses are to hold the upper bearing and springwasher aginst the gearboxhousing.
pic 2 is the gearboxhousing where the shifthousing is attached.
A guess is: that the inside shiftfinger got loose or is not propperley set up on the shiftshaft, also did you check the outside shift-finger on shaft rocking fore and aft / sideways and eyelet to vacuum-cylinder for oval ware, same for clevis and pin ?
Do you know if surface was filed by hand beeing not straight or has it been
reground by professinal ? has it the right thickness of gasket ?
Just a thought after i examined my gearbox-oil pump; reground by hand guided by an idiot....... result : broken and soldred housing-lug, refaced untrue and screwed back on. result speedogear set chewed up aso.
but that's an other story.
Hope this helps.
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Thank you for your thoughts. I have not taken the top off to check it out yet as we are having to upgrade our trailer springs and axles this week, but that's another story!
The push to get it into gear is straight back. Palm of hand pushing on clevis with no side motion required. I believe it is tight to the right against the bushing. I will recheck today and be sure that is the case.
It is possible that the dog bone is not positioned correctly as the transmission has been opened up at some point out of the car and repainted red. It also had a filter added tapped into the oil pump outlet in front and running around the drivers side of the car to the rear.
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It's the only time I can remember a large crowd gathered around the front end of a Cord when the hood was down!
Yes it is a great club because we have some great people in it that are very willing to share the knowledge they've learned on these we call Cords. And as Josh kind of pointed out a few posts back...these Cords keep teaching us - in the way of new problems.
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What a grate Club, manny other make-clubs lack this support !!!!
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I don't beleive you have a problem with the green-red wire, if you did you would have problems in other gears as well as 4th.
At this point get the car to Auburn and we'll get the 9th street pit crew to work on it. There is always plenty of help there and yours won't be the first car that has been torn apart on the street and gotten running again.
If you have trouble finding the "pit crew" just find Bob McEwan (he's always around down there) and have him teach you how to do the "McEwan Shuffle" I can guarantee the pit crew will be assembled and the Cord fixed in record time.
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Looking foward to meeting many of you in person!
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That's exactly what I have been doing, as I have a problem somewhere in the "restored:-)" wiring. Putting a vacuum gauge on the hose from the solenoid to the rear of the vacuum cylinder shows engine vacuum and it does try to move back but just can't seem to pull it in like it does on the other gears. The movement to the right is good and strong and the switch is doing the right thing, but there is a break somewhere in the grn/red wire circuit.
It's hard to tell if R and 2 are more difficult to engage than 4 but I can say that with the engine off (and with the front wheels always on stands) we are not able to move the lever into 4th, even while turning the front wheels by hand. It's also hard to do that for 2. With the engine running and the brown wire jumped to 6V, it does not take much of a push of the hand to get it to go into 4 though.
We have set it up so we can jump the brown wire while driving, and that does not work either.
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Still shiftless......
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It's usually safest to play with the gearshift with the car up on jack stands so the front wheels clear the floor. (I'm sure you're doing that, but it makes me feel better to mention it.)
If you put the shift lever in 4th and depress the clutch then hold it down with your clutch stick -- does the lever stay all the way over in the 4th gear rail position but in neutral front to rear?
If so, what happens if you apply 6 volts from a separate jumper (powered from the horn relay supply, for example) directly to one of the brown wire terminals on top of the solenoid box?
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Vacuum was 10 inches at idle, going up to 14 inches when blipping the throttle. Checked it at the pull back cylinder inlet, same thing. It's enough to pull into the other gears though.
Put heavy grease on cross switch shaft, no leaks apparent. Added a bit of oil to the pull cylinder, and disconnected and checked it by putting a finger over the inlet, it held perfectly. Lubed all clevises and other movement points. Nada. Tried double clutching, same result.
So I'll be a happy 3rd gear cruiser, wave as you pass me going to the airport for the Duesy drags. Maybe the increase in vacuum at near sea level will bail me out!
Anyway, it's been fun trying everything. Getting to know the car better all the time, which is nice. Thanks for all your help, and please send along any other ideas.
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I agree, Josh, which makes me want to find a solution even more!
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For what it's worth, try double clutching (pumping clutch in and out twice) going into 4th. Have no idea why but, I have to double clutch going into 4th. Single clutch is fine for all other gears but if I single clutch going into 4th, I end up in neutral.
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It sounds like you're getting close on the trouble shooting. To answer your question, all the shifting equipment (solenoids, shift cylinder, switches, etc.) are the same for standard and supercharged cars. For vacuum needed to shift I never figured that out and it depends on the release pressure on the syncronizers. If the release pressure is correct it is very difficult to shift the trans into 2, 3 or 4 using the little lever on the cross shifter.
Since the cross shifter is going over to the right and starting to pull back into 4 then goes in with a little help from your hand my guess is you have a vacuum problem. Most likely in one of two places - first would be in the set-up pulling hte lever back into gear. Since you aren't having any problems going into R or 2 my guess this isn't the problem,
The other are would be in pulling the lever over to the right. Check the hoses and filltings on the line that pulld the cross shift to the right. The other area to look is the shaft behind the cross shift switch. if the bushing is worn you may be loosing vacuum there. Try putting some heavy greas on the shaft and try shifting (it's a temporary fix to see if that is the problem).
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Tom Georgeson has worked out how surprisinley little vacuum-force is needet for schifting, when he fitted an vacuum-restrictor-valve.
The result was that it shifted rather nicley without slamming into gears, which is safing the gearbox for an other years of driving.
I beleve , basic is, that the vacuum-line is not leaking and of correct dimension.
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Thanks to all for the suggestions.
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Obviously I have a wiring issue but I could wire the jumper to a cockpit pushbuttin until we restore the car this winter. Could the servo be bad, it works fine in the other 2 gears? Could the solenoid be marginal? It doesn't take much hand pressure to move the lever into 4 once the jumper is energized.
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If they were 6V I'd have a new perpetual motion product to sell!
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Maybe previous owners had it converted to 12 V ? Look for a 6 to 12 Volt converter somewhere in the wiring, should be easy to find since they are quite large.
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I checked for voltage on the grn/red and red/grn before and as I recall they were both at 12V when in the neutral position, which puzzled me a bit.
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It sounds like you have an electrical problem. The reason I'm saying it's electrical is you said the shift pulls over to the right then moves reaward and comes back forward repeatedly. If there was a problem in the gearbox the shift would try to move rearward and stop.
I'm taking a guess but I think your problem may be in the cross shift switch. If the problem was in the column switch you would be having problems with reverse and 2. Is your cross shift switch an original or a modern one with the microswitches?
The red-green wire should be bringing the 6V to the cross shift switch. Once the cross shift moves ovber to the right the green-red wire should have 6 volts on it. Try measuring the voltage with an analog (needle type) multimeter - if you are losing the 6V for a fraction of a second you will see it, some digital meters won't show a quick loss.
The green-red wire takes the voltage back up to the switch on the column and the voltage should come back down on the brown wire to pick up the solenoid to pull it back into 4th.
Let us know how you make out.
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After putting the car on jack stands yesterday and having someone shift while I watched the actuator, I'm thinking it is an internal problem. The shifter slides over to the right, then pulls rearward a little and comes back forward repeatedly, like it is trying to go into gear but cannot.
Since it pulls back into R and 2 fine, I'm assuming that the neutral switch is adjusted properly.
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All the other gears work fine. When I shift into fourth the cross slide moves right and there is 6V on the green/red wire and the red/green wire but no voltage on the brown wire at the "pull back" solenoid. I couldn't find a break in the wire so as a test I hooked a jumper up to the brown wire terminal and connected it to 6V after waiting a few seconds after the clutch switch closed. Nothing changed.
I can't manually get it into fourth either, but I also can't get it into 2 or 3 manually, just R or 1.
Next step would seem to be to take the top off the tranny and look for physical problems. Other thoughts before I do that? Did I miss something? I'm using Josh's color coded diagram from his web page for reference.
Another bit of info, the car was rewired by a previous owner with modern plastic insulated wire which seems to be in good shape. I also cleaned the contacts of the connector near the master cylinder.
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