The bell housing, is the front support of the automatics, whereas there is no intermediate cross member and the back of the transmission is supported at the tailshaft, via the cross member. There is no "forward cross member". Make sense?
by support are we not referring to eng and trans mounting?. Or are you referring that the a/trans is bolted to the eng and is supported by those bolts. Either there is b/housing support or there is rear trans support but not usually both. after 63 with the advent of the alum housed a/trans the b/housing mount was eliminated and went to the rear trans mount.
manual trans models did have a bellhousing and were mounted there at the crossmember that ran underneath that area and not at the rear of the trans( pertaining to oem and not modified installations)
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