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I'm also asking this in the bumpside forum.
I have a 1969 F100 with a 300 I6 and a C4 automatic. I also have a 1973 F100 with a 360 V8 and what I'm assuming is also a C4 automatic.
I want to swap the engines in the two, AKA build the 360 into a nice 390 and throw it in the '69 (which is a nicer truck in every aspect compared to the '73 I have - pictures on profile). Are the bell housings the same, or would I need to swap the transmissions as well? I'm currently rebuilding the '69's tranny with a bit of a performance kit and would like to keep it.
I have a 1969 F100 with a 300 I6 and a C4 automatic. I also have a 1973 F100 with a 360 V8 and what I'm assuming is also a C4 automatic.
I want to swap the engines in the two, AKA build the 360 into a nice 390 and throw it in the '69 (which is a nicer truck in every aspect compared to the '73 I have - pictures on profile). Are the bell housings the same, or would I need to swap the transmissions as well? I'm currently rebuilding the '69's tranny with a bit of a performance kit and would like to keep it.
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I'm also asking this in the bumpside forum.
I have a 1969 F100 with a 300 I6 and a C4 automatic. I also have a 1973 F100 with a 360 V8 and what I'm assuming is also a C4 automatic.
It's a C6, C4's were not used with FE engines.
I want to swap the engines in the two, AKA build the 360 into a nice 390 and throw it in the '69 (which is a nicer truck in every aspect compared to the '73 I have - pictures on profile).
Are the bell housings the same?
I have a 1969 F100 with a 300 I6 and a C4 automatic. I also have a 1973 F100 with a 360 V8 and what I'm assuming is also a C4 automatic.
It's a C6, C4's were not used with FE engines.
I want to swap the engines in the two, AKA build the 360 into a nice 390 and throw it in the '69 (which is a nicer truck in every aspect compared to the '73 I have - pictures on profile).
Are the bell housings
the same?C4 has a converter housing, C6 converter housing is made as part of the transmission case.
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1968/76 F100/350 360/390: ONLY A/T available: C6.
C4: 1965/74 F100/250 240/300 I-6 / 1965/74 F350 240 I-6 / 1969/77 F100 302 / 1975/77 F100/250 300 I-6 / 1975/77 F150 302.
1978: C6 available for the first time with 300 I-6 & 302, but some still came with C4's.
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C4's not used with FE engines. C6 introduced in 1968 F100/350 360/390. Both engines were cancelled at the end of the 1976 model run.
But, if the '73's engine was swapped from a 1965/67 F100/350 that came with a 352, the only A/T available was M/X Cruise-O-Matic, also installed in 1965/72 F350 300 I-6.
Left: First page of C6 parts list from 1964/72 Ford Truck Parts Catalog / Right: M/X Cruise-O-Matic, notice shape of pan and separate converter housing.
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My '69 has a C4 and my '73 has a C6.
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I said my '73 had what I assumed, as in there's an area of uncertainty, that it had a C4, which I'm also assuming you read since you quoted that very sentence. I just went out to look at both trucks, and the '73 has a C6. I suppose I answered my own original question.
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