Re: Daily Buzz report

["Armand Eshleman" <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The transmission crossmember on Javelins is mounted on the bottom side of
the
"frame rails". The 70 Ambo for sure uses the exact same crossmember as I
salvaged one
from a 70 360 Ambo and it matches the Javelin crossmeber 100%. There are two
different
positions in the front to rear plane that the crossmember can be mounted to.
These two postions
are relatively close to each other and offer no help for my situation. I
assume the dual position is
for automatics or manual transmission differences. I looked again tonite and
saw that there is really
only about one inch difference in the elevation between the T5 mount and the
cross member, and
two inches horizontally. It is so close. I began working on other things to
let myself ponder on this
for a bit and also hope some one would tell me how they solved the problem
on their T5 swap into
a Javelin.
Armand




Armand, how and where is the crossmember mounted? I don;t recall off-hand
how the small car tranny crossmember goes in. On the big cars it fits
between the rails. It might be easier/better to move the entire crossmember,
even if it means a little welding is involved.


On May 7, 2005 Armand Eshleman wrote:

> I'm still hoping some one can come up with a great idea on how to make a
> flexible transmission mount. The original transmission crossmember is
about
> 2 inches below the T5 mount boss and about 4 inches behind it. I bought a
> Mustang transmission mount hoping it would work but so far it doesn't look
> good, unless I fabricate a bracket to weld to the AMC crossmember then I
> could bolt the Mustang mount right up, but that may make the cross member
> hang too low also.
>