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You have to be careful what tires you run. Super singles with cracked or weather checked sidewalls are a blowout waiting to happen. Get some new Goodyear MVT 395's from your state surplus agency for best results.

Yes me too.

Thanks for posting! Looks like mid 50's production of export trucks, notice the non-24 volt components. Cab drop looks like a girl? Kinda crude assembly line, notice the wooden work platforms and the roller and slat conveyors.

I prefer to burn the cross out of the u-joint prior to pressing or beating out the cups. That way you are only fighting one frozen cup at a time.

Keep plugging away at it, finish it one day, then enjoy it for the rest of your life. These vehicles are a labor of love, not a source of profit. Your 9 to 5 is for that. You are upside down on it but we all end up that way.

All 4x4s will bind up when you go around a curve on pavement with the front and rear axles locked together. Even my grocery getter Ford Escape will bind up in 4x4 lock.

Remove the batteries and terminals and wire wheel all the electrical connections.

Welcome and good luck with your Stude. Post up what Herc parts you need and the hive here will try to point the way.

How did you get to timing chain???? Dude, replace the VRV, it is a 32 year old plastic pos. The vacuum level at the transmission needs to vary from about 8 to 25 inches as you move the throttle from wide open to idle. Pau!

They have all that DEF emissions crap on them. Worldwide has a bunch of them, been sitting there since the end of BAE's Sealy TX plant. I see them parked at the Worldwide yard every day.

I'm sure that in the 66 years these truck have been around, somebody mismatched bellhousings and could report back if it worked ok, but I suspect those individuals are all pushing up daisies.

I say unrelated, what say you clinto

See if your valves are moving. Another possibility is that the cam driven gear lost all it's fiber teeth. The cam drives the oil pump.

You must mean "distributor rotor"?? The only way for your distributor to stop turning is for the tab to break off the end of the shaft. Does the rotor turn freely? It should not.

As to why the bellhousing halves are matched together and to the engine, that tells me that the final machining of the bore where the transmission input shaft goes was done with the three components assembled, assuring the crankshaft and transmission axis are properly aligned.

So that tells me the transmission is fine, the VRV is not VRVing or is way out of adjustment.

Rusty, I thought disconnecting the modulator would result in high rpm hard shifts, or no shifts st all. Full vacuum to the modulator should result in shifts at low rpm.

I seem to remember driving big chisels in between the yoke and the bolt heads on the bearing cap. Maybe heat it as well.

Welcome to the forum. Does the vacuum at the VRV (device on the IP) vary the vacuum going to the modulator? It's purpose it to duplicate the vacuum levels that a gas engine would generate at various throttle positions. Low vacuum= harsh shifts at high RPM. 12 is kinda low.

This stuck issue happened to me when I was using the M135 as a daily driver! Only happened once in many years of operation.