Changing rear end gears

[Cooke]

I have a 1930 Cadillac with 5 to 1 gears and I would like to change them to 3 something or 4 something to 1 gears. I have never changed out gears, is this difficult to do and who might have gears?? I would really like to get the RPMs down.  Thanks, Martin Cooke

[Jim Stamper]

     Setting up gears is not for the unsupervised novice, however that is an area of the automobile that hasn't changed that much in many vehicles. Especially light trucks, so there are a lot of people out there who still know how to set up a set of gears, especially if you give them a book for the car. CDs for setting up rear ends and transmissions for old car work are on EBAY.

     Phil Bray, in Michigan produces rear end gears for Packards and others, don't know if he does Cadillacs. Email  braypt@yahoo.com

                                                                             Jim Stamper,  CLC#13470

[Whit Otis, 1188]

I had Phil Bray make a set of high speed gears for my 1940-75 and they have worked out great so far.  I bought the gears from Phil and then I was going to do the conversion myself, but chickened out and had a differential shop here in town do it as they had quite a bit of experience in old car converstions.

Whit Otis