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#84303 10/15/2007 1:54 AM | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 26 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 26 | Hello:
Just wondering what, if any, the GMC engine from the late fifties share bellhousing patterns with. Are the GMC engine bellhousing bolt patterns the same as a Chevy? Someone told me that the later model GM engine (250, 292) wilt bolt in?
Here's the deal. I'm offered a nice old '57 GMC 2 ton with a 12' dump body. I belive it has a 270 straight 6, but it has a rod through the block. What would be the easiest way to get it back under it's own power?
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1942 Chevy G7104 1.5 ton 4x4
1946 Willys CJ-2A
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#84304 10/15/2007 2:12 AM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 292 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2007 Posts: 292 | put a rod back in it. . . LOL I don't see why a GMC and chevy wouldn't interchange. . .I pulled a 265 of a chevy truck and dropped a 351E-V6 right in bolted up. .. . and with some help from a battery saws all and batery drill a fabbed some make shift mount's got it running got 450 mile's home. . .
1962 GMC K3000, GMC-379 V6.
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#84305 10/15/2007 2:48 AM | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | The bellhousing patterns are very different. You can use any 235/261 full pressure, or the 228/248/270/302 (best choice) as a virual bolt in using the existing bellhousing. The Chevy front mounts are different due to the length difference in the engines (GMC is longer).
A later 6 can be made to fit, but will require fabbing up side mounts for the block, and the bellhousing will have to be swapped out for a Chevy V8 bellhousing from '55-'66 with the crossmember mounts.
Bill Burmeister
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#84306 10/15/2007 2:50 AM | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 | I just put a chevy bellhousing from a 235 in my gmc with 248. The only thing I noticed was there was an extra alignment stud on the back of the gmc block and I needed to add a hole to the bellhousing. Not sure why the stud was there...
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#84307 10/16/2007 10:30 PM | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | If you want to keep it a straight six, put a GMC 270 or 302 back into it. If you want to switch to a Chevy engine, just get a Chevy bellhousing out of Chevy's version of your truck and bolt it right up.
GMC straight six bellhousings match up with Chevy straight six bellhousings of the same decade.
GMC V8 bellhousings of the '50s match up with Buick, Olds, and Pontiac bellhousings of the '50s.
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