Re: [ihc] RE: 5 speeds and 6's

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Grammer" <jgrammer@domain.elided>
To: "ken.dunnington" <ken.dunnington@domain.elided>
Cc: <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 09:30
Subject: RE: [ihc] RE: 5 speeds and 6's


> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ken.dunnington [mailto:ken.dunnington@domain.elided]
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:18 PM
> >To: Jim Grammer
> >Cc: ihc@domain.elided
> >Subject: Re: [ihc] RE: 5 speeds and 6's
>
> >Well thanks much Jim.  I know that the back of the engine has a bolt
> >on flywheel housing.  So the flywheel housing for the BDs in the
> >mediums have the SV style pattern?  Hmmm.  That's exactly what I need
> >to get.
>
> >I have two T35s, both rebuilt, both with SV bellhousings(off 392).  I
> >need either a bellhousing that matches the pattern currently on the
> >back of my BD264 and the T3x, or a flywheel housing for the BD that
> >matches the SV pattern.
>
> >Otherwise it's modification time(to the SV bellhousing).
>
> Ken, since I happen to have one of the automatic adapter(IH nomenclature
> 'adapter, flywheel housing') plates lying loose at the moment, I checked
the
> fit-up on a bellhousing for an SV-8 last night. The auto converter uses
only
> 4 bolts to mount to the adapter, the bottom 2 w/dowel sleeves and the top
2.
> The middle 2 on the V-8 are not addressed, and the bulge for the V-8
starter
> nose kind of hangs in the breeze. So, the auto adapter ain't gonna work so
> good ;(
>
> Parts books from the '60's(MT-118, MT-110) aren't much help. Go back to B
> series stuff(MT-107), and bingo. There is a listing for a flywheel
> housing(not adapter) that specifically calls out the T-3x trannies. That
> housing should do the job, maybe try Coonrod's?
>
> MT-107 also lists 2 flavors of the adapter plate. One is called out for
10"
> and 11" clutches, so clearly for manual trannies. The other is called out
> for 12" clutches or automatics. Bolt patterns? Who knows? I have one of
the

Wouldn't that 12" clutch plate imply that it's the same one that you already
have?  which you don't like how it bolts up?

> earliest BW autos(from an R series), and it's converter housing has the
same
> 4 bolt pattern as the later units. The bad news would be if you needed
> *both* the adapter plate and the 5 speed-specific flywheel housing.
>

That would be bad news, although it seems likely that if he found the
adapter plate, it'd still be bolted between the engine and a 5spd...

> Looking at a 'unit' flywheel housing for the 6 and 4 speed, it occurs to
me
> that a spacer type adapter might not be that tough to build. 1/2" steel
> plate should do the job, mounted on the back of the housing with pickup
> holes for the 5 speed case. You'd need to space the flywheel back a like
> amount, I wonder if there's enough clearance inside the housing????
>
> Jim
>

What did IH do to account for *their* adapter?

-Ryan


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