1957 painting the Transmission

[Steve Springer]

Should an automatic transmission in a 1957 Thunderbird be painted???? When I pulled the engine the transmission was a pale green. Also the bell housing.

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[Tater Salad]

I think they were all aluminum. Not sure why yours has paint

 

[doug7740]

On my 1955 air cooled Ford-O-Matic transmission, only the tail shaft is aluminum, the rest is cast iron. I put a clear coat on the cast iron sections of the transmission to keep them from rusting.

doug7740
1955 Thunderbird Blue

 

[biddle]

Should an automatic transmission in a 1957 Thunderbird be painted???? When I pulled the engine the transmission was a pale green. Also the bell housing.

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[1957Bird]

When out for engine rebuild recently, my bell housing was bear cast iron, transmission showed signs of having been ford (engine) blue and tail alum, so that’s how I refinished it.
bell housing got Eastwood cast iron paint, trans got ford blue and tail slim was cleaned.

 

[doug7740]

Attached are two transmission pictures I found


Hope this helps.

doug7740
1955 Thunderbird Blue