Pressure plate and flywheel problem! Please help!
Thread Starter
|
New User
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 20
Likes: 0
From: leon, west virginia
Pressure plate and flywheel problem! Please help!
I've read so many posts about this my eyes are ready to bleed. I've got a 77 f150 4wd,with a 4 speed tranny. I just rebuilt a 400 engine that I'm ready to drop in, except I can't find a pressure plate that matches the hole pattern on my flywheel. The flywheel is off another 400 engine I picked up from a friend. But every clutch kit I've ordered from the parts store has been wrong.
There a 2 separate sets of casting numbers on my flywheel. The first is d7te 6380 dc. The second set is stamped into the outer edge and it is d7te-de.
I've ordered both an 11" clutch set and also a 12" and neither set will match up. The old pressure plate is a borg&beck with a model number I can't hardly make out. The bolt hole spacing on it is 6 1/4" center to center.
Before anybody asks the obvious I can't use my original flywheel because its for a 351 Cleveland.
So which set of numbers do I go by? I'm completely stuck now, please help!
There a 2 separate sets of casting numbers on my flywheel. The first is d7te 6380 dc. The second set is stamped into the outer edge and it is d7te-de.
I've ordered both an 11" clutch set and also a 12" and neither set will match up. The old pressure plate is a borg&beck with a model number I can't hardly make out. The bolt hole spacing on it is 6 1/4" center to center.
Before anybody asks the obvious I can't use my original flywheel because its for a 351 Cleveland.
So which set of numbers do I go by? I'm completely stuck now, please help!
Hotshot
Joined: Apr 2009
Posts: 14,333
Likes: 247
From: Stanley, VA
Not sure that you have the right flywheel. According to the Ford parts catalog the flywheel for the 400 is p/n D7TZ-6375-D, marked D7TE-CE.
From the illustration in the catalog, it looks like the 351M takes a Borg & Beck style pressure plate and the 400 takes a Long style pressure plate.
The 12" disc is p/n D7TZ-7550-B and pressure plate is D7TZ-7563-B.
From the illustration in the catalog, it looks like the 351M takes a Borg & Beck style pressure plate and the 400 takes a Long style pressure plate.
The 12" disc is p/n D7TZ-7550-B and pressure plate is D7TZ-7563-B.
Thread Starter
|
New User
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 20
Likes: 0
From: leon, west virginia
Thanks a lot mike!
So that would mean I've probably got a 351M flywheel instead? Since mine is DE.
Which would explain why the clutch kits I've ordered for a 400 flywheel haven't matched up?
I need to use a 351m harmonic balancer with this flywheel too correct??
That will be a problem since all Ive got is 400 and 351C harmonic balancers.
So that would mean I've probably got a 351M flywheel instead? Since mine is DE.
Which would explain why the clutch kits I've ordered for a 400 flywheel haven't matched up?
I need to use a 351m harmonic balancer with this flywheel too correct??
That will be a problem since all Ive got is 400 and 351C harmonic balancers.
Hotshot
Joined: Apr 2009
Posts: 14,333
Likes: 247
From: Stanley, VA
EDIT: On the harmonic balancer, the parts catalog shows three different balancers were used but two out of the three show usage on both the 351M and the 400 so I think you'll be good.
Thread Starter
|
New User
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 20
Likes: 0
From: leon, west virginia
Ok, well that's possibly good news on the harmonic balancer. I know the balancer Ive got came with this 400 motor. It was in a 1971 ford ltd with about 40,000 miles original miles on it. My flywheel actually has D7TE-DE stamped on the outer edge of the flywheel. My local parts store ordered 2 more clutch kits for a 351m, so in the morning I'll take my flywheel with me and hope for the best. I'm ready to get my old truck running again.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
jtapal
1973 - 1979 F-100 & Larger F-Series Trucks
4
May 15, 2016 01:17 AM
