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RE: This changes things.

By Gerry Proctor - 02/04/2005 3:11:35 PM; IP 207.133.188.254

That's a smallblock toploader. If you want to use that trans, you'll have to use one of the truck bellhousings or trim down the input shaft pilot to the bigblock length to use a car bellhousing.

It's not a problem to use a truck housing since it is functionally the same but you may have to do some grinding to get an 11.5" clutch to fit. Alternatively, you can also use an 11" diaphragm clutch with an aftermarket flywheel, like Centerforce, to get past that. The truck housing are a lot cheaper than the car housings on eBay since many folks know it's a truck housing regarless of what the seller says.

If you want to use a car housing then you would have to trim the input pilot.

One other thing...make sure the trans is what you think it is. It's not uncommon for the tag to represent only a tag and not how the trans was built when it left the factory. Ford hasn't built a traditional toploader in about 30 years so these things get mixed and matched.

This thread, so far...

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RE: Same site. Look up trans and tailshaft ID. -- giacamo, 02/04/2005