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By the spring of 98 I felt pretty comfortable about the possibility of being able to get it back together, but how was I ever going to get all that rust off? While in at one of the suppliers for my business I saw that they had a universal bead blasting cabinet. The next time I went in I brought with me the round top to the governor housing and asked to try it out. Obviously it did work well, because I now own it. It has paid for itself many times over! If you don’t have one already, I would suggest you talk a friend that lives close into buying one (least wise that’s what my "supposed" friend Larry did). For the big items, I borrowed Larry's pressure pot blaster and things began to move along.

The final drive was taken totally apart, the bolster, the transmission etc. (Between the blasters, the inside is as clean as on the outside. each gear; shaft etc was individually blasted with glass at low pressure) The one item I didn’t do, and wish I had, was to unbolt the transmission from the countershaft housing, and replace the gasket. I knew it had to have one there but I didn’t think it would leak (see what I mean about getting confused?) With all the solvent I used to clean the sand out, I should, and anyone else would have know that it was going to leak. Well, if that was the worst that could happen I decided that I could live with a few drops of oil. One little tidbit of advice---- Don’t chase the pan bolts and bolt holes. (They’ll leak and you’ll have to remove and cover them with silicon sealer latter).

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