Re: [Amc-list] bell housing

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Well, OK it appears you volunteered to start a file on these.
I'll try and remember to get the needed stuff on the one I have and sent it out to you.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> > " From: "Andrew Blomer" <lotharamc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > " Would a bell housing that was in/on a 343 in a CJ-7 be one I would need
> 
> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> 
> > amc/jeep and ford t5s have the same bolt pattern.  ford v8 retainers
> > are larger, so if you don't have a multipattern bell [0] they won't
> 
> We need a way to VISUALLY identify bellhousings!
> 
> When they're in the car, motor in front trans in back, at least
> you can do it, with research.  But when it's a bell in your
> backyard storage it's tough.
> 
> 
> Three engine patterns, two? depths, large number of trans
> patterns, and for all 1960+ eights and sixes. Is that
> it? (Variations like left or right side clutch fork hole,
> E-stick are minor, and if not, well we can't solve all problems.)
> 
> The engine side is easy, I have two of the three here (early,
> late six). Photograph and a Gimp filter will reduce to a shape
> you can see on paper or www.
> 
> Depth is a single number.
> 
> The trans end is the hardest one.
> 
> I volunteer to turn raw data in the form of photos or tracings
> into information for AMCyclopedia. Lay a ruler across the trans
> end of a bellhousing, photograph it; or trace it and write down
> measurements, whatever.
> 
> This comes up all the time and is a big PITA. One bell at a
> time will fix it. So what if it takes a year or two? We've
> been talking about this crap over and over for longer than
> that already!
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