Warford Information

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Over this past winter I rebuilt a Warford overdrive to use in my 1929 AA truck.

I've put the Warford into the truck and I'm quite happy with it. My truck has the high speed worm drive rear end and the addition of the overdrive is nice.

As far as speed goes before the overdrive I had a comfortable cruising speed in 3rd gear of 29 mph. Now while in overdrive I am shifting out of 2nd at 29 mph.
As far as how fast will it go... I'm not sure. I roll along at 40 mph quite comfortably and have had it up close to 50 mph. There is still some additional speed available but it's a truck and at speeds higher than that if I had to make an evasive move due to some other persons poor driving etc... it might get a little more exciting than I want so your probably not going to see me on the interstate.
The Warford has an under drive, direct drive and the overdrive so it really opens up a lot of options for driving.
Before I put the Warford into my truck it had the optional dual high transmission. Installation of the Warford is pretty straight forward as it replaces the dual high with no modifications needed.
Just take the dual high out and put the Warford in... well it sounds simple but you need to take the entire drive train out to make it happen.

The gears in the Warford were pretty good but some of the bearings were toast and the cluster gear shaft was shot. I had a new cluster gear shaft made and replaced all of the bearings.

I added an oil seal in the main drive gear housing that wasn't there originally. It fits in there really nice and seems to be doing the job. One has to remove the bearing race to put it in place but it is well worth the extra effort to do it.
Thanks go to AAholic as he shared his knowledge in the addition of this oil seal.

I sourced the bearings from Steve at South Shore Bearing in Quincy Massachusetts.
(617) 471-7800
Steve is an exceptionally nice and helpful person to work with. If you need bearings he is the go to guy.

I have 45 pictures of the Warford in various stages of the rebuild on one of the albums on my homepage that some might find helpful. Too many to try to post on the open forum.