Monday, November 19, 2012

Hudsons and 5 Speeds...

I had a customer drop off a 262 Hudson motor for me to start designing an adapter for a T5 5 speed.  He's got a '37 Hudson coupe that he wants to drop this in and insists on having a manual.  Pretty cool in my book...

Hudson has some fairly innovative designs back in the day.  The used a wet clutch instead of the more common dry version.  A stamped steel housing covered the clutch and pressure plate and sealed around the throw out bearing.  The clutch sat in about 6 oz. of fluid.  The one thing that strikes me as humorous is that the flywheel actually has drain plugs.