Re: [AMC-List] my 62 classic project

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the Jeep tailhousing will be too short to work for adapting to a torque tube. You will likely end up a good foot shorter than the torque tube tranny!
  The S-10 T-5 housing and shifter would work for shifter placement to keep the bench seat. Also the unobtainable 2wd AMC tailhousing is farther forward than the Ford units. I've heard runours of a Chevette T-5 that is a match for the AMC tailhousing. 
  I've got the AMC based trans in my American now and think it would barely clear a bench. Search out T-5 swaps into early Chevy trucks there is a website, maybe inliners.com or org, that has an excellent writeup on swapping T-5 gears and shifter/tailshaft housings.
  If anyone has an AMC T-5 core I'd like to get one to build mine from, so keep me in mind.
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

> s-10 t5s are much the same as jeep ones, even use the same internals
> some years -- but you don't need the whole tranny, just the tailshaft
> housing.  put it on a 'stang t5 for a fwd shifter loc, that's what the
> rodders do.  you might want the s-10 front bearing retainer too; amc
> t5s [and their bells] have the smaller gm diameter, not the slightly
> larger ford size, and it might save you some machine work.
> 
> if you want to keep your torque tube, you might be able to fab
> something using a jeep t5 t/c adapter and a custom block adapting the
> tt to the t/c pattern.  dunno if you'd be stuck for a speedo drive
> though; i think jeeps drive it from the t/c.
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