Oh. And winches...

[Robert Dabkowski]

JD, you have hit apon the most sinister part of the design. As is so typical of Canada, we wanted some Canadian content (and jobs) so ACME of Toronto used t98 CASES (only) to build Cdn. transmissions with internals different to the US Warners (some syncros & different shift pattern also).

The "GREAT EVIL" is that you CAN indeed bolt a US pto to a Cdn. transmission and everything will work just fine UNTIL you try to engage the winch. At that point the US pto gear teeth, which are cut at the reverse angle to the Cdn. gear teeth will self destruct and fill the transmission case with many little bits of hard metal which usually jam and break the remainder of the driving gears in the case also. Very depressing & expensive.

To add icing to the cake, the Cdn. service manual for the M37 was basically just copied from the US manual and shows a good photo of the US pto gear NOT the Cdn. pto gear. If you compare a US pto to the photo in the Cdn manual you think that you have the correct beast, install it and then try to find a new transmission (and pto also). Be AFRAID, be very AFRAID !!

Robert in Toronto