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#68584 11/14/2006 5:54 AM | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 13 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 13 | I have a 53 with 235 and 3 on the tree with torque tube. My neighbor gave me a 57 chev three speed trans that uses an open driveline, which is what I want, so I can have a lower ratio rear-end. Anyone know if this will bolt up to my bellhouse and transmission? Any help would be most appreciated. | | |
#68585 11/14/2006 4:09 PM | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 29 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 29 | My understanding is that it should bolt right up , Im sure a fellow stovebolter can expound on this,Good luck !
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#68586 11/14/2006 4:16 PM | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,424 ODSS President | | ODSS President Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,424 | '53, reread your post, it is confusing. Yes your neighbor's '57 trans will bolt up to your present bellhousing. You then have to convert your rear axle, meaning take away the closed driveshaft and install either a whole axle axle assembly that will accept an open driveshaft or find a 3rd member 3.90 to convert your present 4.11 torque-tube axle to a 3.90 open differential. Next you will have to measure and search for a driveshaft to fit between your 'new' '57 transmission and your 'new' open rear end at a bone yard.
I found a '57 rear to plug into my old '49 axle and added a '62 3sp+od and found an open driveshaft to fit (see description of my set-up below).
~ Cosmo
1949 Chevy Half Ton
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"...my good horse Rocinante, mine eternal and inseparable companion in all my journeys and courses." ...Don Quixote, Cervantes
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#68587 11/14/2006 4:24 PM | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 13 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 13 | Thanks for the reply, the 57 trans has an input shaft that sticks out with some of the shaft revealed, unlike the original trans with input shaft further in and only splines showing. I am planning on going to an open rear-end with a lower ratio so I needed to find a trans that will bolt up to my 235 and work with the shift linkage and remove entirely the closed style rear end. | | |
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