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| | | | Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 331 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 331 | Will cast iron crossmember-mounted V8 style bellhousing from a '55 and later truck application also fit in a '47-'54 style frame?
1950 4100 - unrestored and driven weekly for almost no reason at all.
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,418 ODSS Lawman | | ODSS Lawman Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,418 | Rather than list every bell housing, what is your truck and what are you trying to install?
SWEET Sergeant At Arms: Old Dominion Stovebolt Society BUNS?!?!?!Where we're going, we don't need no buns.....1950 GMC 450 1951 Chevy 1/2-TonThe GreenMachineIn the Stovebolt Gallery | | | | | Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 331 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 331 | I'm not trying to install anything. I am only curious if the next gen truck chassis bellhousings will also work in the 47-54 chassis.
1950 4100 - unrestored and driven weekly for almost no reason at all.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 Riding in the Passing Lane | | Riding in the Passing Lane Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 | Only on the 54. It has a different crossmember then the earlier models. The 54 crossmember can be put on the earlier frame.
They say money can't buy happiness. It can buy old Chevy trucks though. Same thing. 1972 Chevy c10 Cheyenne SuperIn the Gallery Forum | | | | | Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 331 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 331 | Only on the 54. It has a different crossmember then the earlier models. The 54 crossmember can be put on the earlier frame. Interesting.
1950 4100 - unrestored and driven weekly for almost no reason at all.
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,611 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,611 | That is interesting, there were many changes that year. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,747 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,747 | Early..47-53 bell housing had "flat" mounts. Sort of true horizontal to the crossmember. 54 the mounts came to be angled tipped down to the center. Same time the V-8 is introduced(265). The company chose to make all the bellhousings and crossmembers fit. Out with the old..and in with the new. The truck had to wait for the steering to move for the wider V-8. But the crossmember was changed. A half step at a time I guess. Like the 55.1 and the 55.2 the truck got a mid year change(new chassis and new sheetmetal) Lots happened at that time. Then, the 285 comes right on top of the 265, same mounts in the early versions.
Steve H
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