Stupid mistake I made..
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Stupid mistake I made..
Yesterday; I was trying to reinstall my 302 / c-6 combo into my 78 model. I must of had the torque convertor in a bind, after I had the trans matted to the engine, I was tighing down the torque nut to the fly wheel. I couldn't turn the torque convertor; so I was removing the trans bell bolt from the housing ( to reangle the trans) and must of had the angle between the two parts in a bind and as I was removing the final bolt it snap a portion of the bell housing shell.
I learn lesson the hard way...........................
Mitch
I learn lesson the hard way...........................
Mitch
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Been told its possible to weld, my departments Chief Mechanic has a aluimimum welder; unfortunatlty he's alittle under the weather, maybe he can weld it tuesday. It snap at the bolt hold which holds the fill tube. I have another trans; but never torn one down. As you can tell by my initial post, I'm just a shade tree mechanic; with alot of leaves missing.
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That sucks, but don't get too worried about it. From 62 till 65 1/2 the 221-289 Ford engines only used 5 bell housing bolts anyway. Back in the 70s and 80s I installed several Buick-Olds-Pontiac trannys behind chebbys using adaptor plates that attached the tranny with 4 bolts.
Just to be clear, was your problem that the torque convertor was not fully seated in the front pump in the tranny?
Just to be clear, was your problem that the torque convertor was not fully seated in the front pump in the tranny?
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Unless you have a ton of horsepower I wouldnt worry too much about it. I busted a bolt hole off a tranny once when I was in high school. I put it all together without one bolt and it held up fine. Kinda like lugnuts...you can live without one.lol
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I'm with ya (Fordtruckskickgmon) the level of stress on my truck isn't to demanding; should do fine. I did have it welded and currently back together. Tomorrow we'll hopefully get the front clip back on after touching up some basic automatic parts like p/s a/c ingition parts back attached to the inner fenders.
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Hey Customcab, been there, done that, no big deal. Get someone who is handy with a tig welder, make sure he preps it right, weld it up. Never have a problem with it. My stupid mistake was with a 460/c6.......note to self, never use the bolts to draw the tranny and engine together.