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Sorry to combine subjects, but joined here to get more info and possibly find a trans I'm looking for.
I build street rods and muscle cars and like to use parts and combinations normally not considered. I put a large bell, short shaft C4 in my '31 coupe behind a 5.0 HO and it worked out great. I have a fiberglass '32 3 window I'm putting my 545 in and want to try the same style trans in it. Best I can tell, F250 2x long beds and some 4x's with divorced xfer cases came with a 351m/400/460 bellhousing and short tail shaft C6. Documentation is really kind of crappy so I thought I'd come to the source... you guys. What years/models did these trannies come in? I'm in SoCal and good junkyards are a thing of the past here so the more info I can get on these the better my chances of finding one.
I build street rods and muscle cars and like to use parts and combinations normally not considered. I put a large bell, short shaft C4 in my '31 coupe behind a 5.0 HO and it worked out great. I have a fiberglass '32 3 window I'm putting my 545 in and want to try the same style trans in it. Best I can tell, F250 2x long beds and some 4x's with divorced xfer cases came with a 351m/400/460 bellhousing and short tail shaft C6. Documentation is really kind of crappy so I thought I'd come to the source... you guys. What years/models did these trannies come in? I'm in SoCal and good junkyards are a thing of the past here so the more info I can get on these the better my chances of finding one.
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The only year with the 351m/400/460 bellhousing and short tailshaft C6 was 77-77.5 F250 4x4 as far as these trucks go. So you've got a half year to look for if you don't want to do any parts swapping. Just look for a divorced transfercase and it should have the short tailshaft trans. 73-77 F250 4x4s all used the short tailshaft C6s for the automatics (67-72 should as well, but I'm not familiar with that body style), but 73-76 would have the FE bellhousing. If you've got an FE bellhousing short tailshaft transmission and one of any version C6 with the 351m/400/460 bellhousing, you can swap the short tail shaft and housing onto the other, but it will require a full teardown of both transmissions.
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The only year with the 351m/400/460 bellhousing and short tailshaft C6 was 77-77.5 F250 4x4 as far as these trucks go. So you've got a half year to look for if you don't want to do any parts swapping. Just look for a divorced transfercase and it should have the short tailshaft trans. 73-77 F250 4x4s all used the short tailshaft C6s for the automatics (67-72 should as well, but I'm not familiar with that body style), but 73-76 would have the FE bellhousing. If you've got an FE bellhousing short tailshaft transmission and one of any version C6 with the 351m/400/460 bellhousing, you can swap the short tail shaft and housing onto the other, but it will require a full teardown of both transmissions.
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Not so concerned with building at this point, just taking baby steps. Need to find one first and this style is kind of unknown outside of Ford trucks.
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I fell into the one I used on the '31. Works great with ladder suspensions and I don't have the usual issues with slip yokes. I figured it would be a bit more difficult finding one for a BB than a Windsor.
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Not sure about the 2wd trucks. It was my understanding that they used a slip yolk, but I could be wrong. Hopefully someone can confirm.
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