Re: American trans swap

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Since the BW auto trans used a separate bell housing this makes perfectly good sense. By the way, the separate bell was used to facilitate use in many different vehicles. Any maker could use the same input shaft and torque converter -- just needed to make a special pilot bushing/hole in crank and flexplate -- and their own bell. It's just a little cheaper to cast the bell enbloc with the main case. A dollar or two saved on half a million transmissions adds up! Would be worth it to save $0.25. 

On February 23, 2005 Jim B wrote:

> A: The Postal Jeeps used both the early and late motors with BW trans, but
> there is 2 different patterns. (We went to put the 999 from the '77 AMX I
> parted into a '76 DJ and it wouldn't fit, but it did fit a '74. Postal Jeeps
> got engine swaps every now and then, and probably they just swapped
> bellhousing during the swap. 

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