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Contrary to my ass
I got a trans that I'm trying to put behind an SBF (well, a 300 but it uses the same bell so let's call it an SBF to make things easy on the simpletons). I want to run a hydraulic clutch with an external slave like you'd find in an 80s truck with a 4spd or 90s BBF with a 5spd. I have a bell housing from an 80s van. The bearing retainer OD on the trans is 5.125 but it's trivially easy to open up the bell on the lathe.
The trans input is 1-3/8 x 10spl. I'm going to use a stock pressure plate for an 11" clutch and an 11" clutch disk that uses a 1-3/8 input and trim the fingers of the clutch disk if needed to clear the bearing retainer.
I have no idea WTF I need for the clutch fork and throw-out bearing. Does a 60s 427 use the same pivot distance and pivot ball size? If so then I can probably just use an off the shelf throw-out and fork from that fuck around with slave cylinders until I find something that's right ratio. Part of me says just get whatever throw-out bearing looks easy to make a fork for and then just roll with that.
The applications that have 1-3/8 trans inputs that come to mind are 60s 427, 40s/50s flathead v8 and Dodge/GM with the NV4500 and some Chevys with the SM465. I'm hoping to be able to cobble together off the shelf parts to make this work. Ideally the only thing I want to make myself is the clutch slave cylinder bracket but I'll make or modify a fork too if I need to.
Anyone have any bright ideas?
The trans input is 1-3/8 x 10spl. I'm going to use a stock pressure plate for an 11" clutch and an 11" clutch disk that uses a 1-3/8 input and trim the fingers of the clutch disk if needed to clear the bearing retainer.
I have no idea WTF I need for the clutch fork and throw-out bearing. Does a 60s 427 use the same pivot distance and pivot ball size? If so then I can probably just use an off the shelf throw-out and fork from that fuck around with slave cylinders until I find something that's right ratio. Part of me says just get whatever throw-out bearing looks easy to make a fork for and then just roll with that.
The applications that have 1-3/8 trans inputs that come to mind are 60s 427, 40s/50s flathead v8 and Dodge/GM with the NV4500 and some Chevys with the SM465. I'm hoping to be able to cobble together off the shelf parts to make this work. Ideally the only thing I want to make myself is the clutch slave cylinder bracket but I'll make or modify a fork too if I need to.
Anyone have any bright ideas?
