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I am in the proccess of swapping engines on my '46 Chevy COE. I have pulled the bell housing off the eingine I pulled out and as I am cleaning it up I see the "mounting" design is a little different then what I have seen before. It almost has kind of a torsion type setup.

It looks like on the side of the bell housing there is a rubber washer, a cast iron piece that has the treaded hole in the bottom to accept the bolt, another rubber washer, a steel washer and then a bolt that goes through it all.

Has anyone seen this type of bell houseing mount before? Where would you get new rubber washers or bushing to install?
Thanks,
Chevman

I imagine youll either have to fab your own pieces or make do with what you have. Unless you can find an NOS supplier who still has that stuff on the shelf???

Mine has these bellhousing mounts which attach to a steel block surrounded by rubber (square in shape) and have bolts which both go from top and bottom into a threaded portion of the block. There are also 2 steel squares, 1/2" thick-ish, which sit in there somewhere to.

Both sides are different on mine and it tilts the engine an inch or so, to the passenger side. Dont know if thats how a Chevy is setup?

You can almost see what I mean about the tilt in this pic here.

Dont know if that helps or confuses you more!

Jeff

Jeff,
Thanks for the reply. The mounts that you show are very similar to two other bell housing's that I have. But this setup is one that I have never seen before. I will have to get a couple of pictures and get them posted in the next day or so.

I think you are probably correct that I will have to fabricate something new for this replacement.

Thanks,
Chevman

Here is a link to pictures of these round motor mounts.
http://rides.webshots.com/album/567671457hcTiFH?vhost=rides
After inspecting the rubber donuts they didn't look too bad so I am reusing them at this point.

Chevman

Okay you got me! Those are a little bizarre...

Jeff