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| | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 23 Member | | Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 23 | The bellhousing on my '54 has a big crack in it near the driver side motor mount, so I bought another bellhousing that looked in okay shape. Upon getting it back to the garage I noticed two things.
One, the stud that the clutch linkage pivots on is entirely absent on the new one. The boss is there in the casting but no hole was ever bored. Do you think I'll be able to drift the old one out and drill the new bellhousing to accept it?
Second, there is an pointed alignment stud at each motor mount attachment point on my old one, but none on the new one. The bolt hole locations appear to be the same. Are the studs really necessary, or were they just assembly line aids?
Many thanks for any answers, and all help you fine people have given me so far.
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,248 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,248 | The pivot ball on the older truck look like they screwed in to housing with a jam nut, but not real sure, the pictures not that clear that shows it. The bell houising you have isn't one of the later ones with the slave cylinder mounted on the right side of it? | | | 
#1293 01/18/2002 11:55 PM | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 23 Member | | Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 23 | Whitelightning,
I think you are referring to the ball pivot inside the bellhousing that the clutch fork attaches to. I was referring to the stud that is on the outside on the upper left that the clutch linkage attaches to.
I think my new bellhousing must have come out of a later model that had the clutch linkage pivot attached to the frame or something.
I suppose it wouldn't be that big a deal to have a machine shop make me a stud, then drill the new bellhousing to accept it.
It's always something, isn't it?
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,248 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,248 | '54 must be different than '53 trucks. I'm talking half ton. My pedals both mount on a pivot bolt in frame with an adjustable rod to clutch arm and a spring up to frame. Yours almost sounds more like what they used on 230/250 inline sixes.  | | | | | | Anonymous Unregistered | | Anonymous Unregistered | Geoff, if it were me I'd just look for the correct housing. Should not be hard to find. I have several of them here but am far away in Ca. | | |
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