{"id":118,"date":"2004-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:10:26","slug":"bel-air\/replacing-transmission-crossmember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Replacing the Transmission Crossmember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"256\" alt=\"NewMounts.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/08\/NewMounts.jpg\" \/>   I spent yesterday digging my garden out with my brother in law to lay a patio. There was a big skip on the drive in front of the garage door, so I couldn&#8217;t push the chassis out to work on it, so the body went outside in the heat instead. When I put the engine mounts in, I used the old transmission mount to centre it, which was a mistake, as it was nearly an inch out. Once the transmission was up on the jack, the old crossmember was removed, and an axle stand put in to support it. I cut through the old mounts with the grinder, and then spent an hour or so grinding the remains away as far as the bottom edge which I&#8217;ll do when I do the underside of the frame. The new supports needed a trim to allow for the curve of the frame, and then I checked and rechecked the position with the new crossmember in place. A few quick tack welds, then pulled the crossmember and welded it. I cleaned up where I had cut off the bellhousing mounts as well, then sanded it all ready for paint. I sanded the crossmember at the same time, then hung it from the roof and etch primed it and the new mounts. A quick coat of black, with the leftover pant sprayed over the mounts and it was time to call it a day. Next thing to do is pull the motor to finish the frame.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"312\" alt=\"NewMember.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/08\/NewMember.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"256\" alt=\"NewMounts.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/08\/NewMounts.jpg\" \/>   I spent yesterday digging my garden out with my brother in law to lay a patio. There was a big skip on the drive in front of the garage door, so I couldn&#8217;t push the chassis out to work on it, so the body went outside in the heat instead. When I put the engine mounts in, I used the old transmission mount to centre it, which was a mistake, as it was nearly an inch out. Once the transmission was up on the jack, the old crossmember was removed, and an axle stand put in to support it. I cut through the old mounts with the grinder, and then spent an hour or so grinding the remains away as far as the bottom edge which I&#8217;ll do when I do the underside of the frame. The new supports needed a trim to allow for the curve of the frame, and then I checked and rechecked the position with the new crossmember in place. A few quick tack welds, then pulled the crossmember and welded it. I cleaned up where I had cut off the bellhousing mounts as well, then sanded it all ready for paint. I sanded the crossmember at the same time, then hung it from the roof and etch primed it and the new mounts. A quick coat of black, with the leftover pant sprayed over the mounts and it was time to call it a day. Next thing to do is pull the motor to finish the frame.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"312\" alt=\"NewMember.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/08\/NewMember.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}