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beerisgood 11-08-2002, 04:27 PM just thought of this and was wondering if anybody could forsee any problems building a homemade adapter this way: get an extra bellhousing for the transmission that you want to hook up and a bellhousing of a transmission that would bolt up to he engine cut the front part( where you actually bolt it to the engine) off of both and weld together? This would of course habve to be measured and done to length. Slagburn 11-08-2002, 06:41 PM Sure, if you can get it centered to within a few .000" and can weld cast or aluminum, since all bellhousings are one or the other. Sounds like reinventing the wheel. Doable, but why? Shane 11-08-2002, 07:25 PM Originally posted by Slagburn but why? When the adapter you want doesn't exist. liveaxle 11-08-2002, 07:58 PM Originally posted by Shane Krause When the adapter you want doesn't exist. What's the application? beerisgood 11-10-2002, 05:35 AM I wasn't planning on doing it, I was just thinking about it and wondered if anybody ever had the urge and tried it. toy283 11-10-2002, 05:55 AM Usually far easier to make a plate to go between the bellhousing and transmission. AIRZUKI 11-10-2002, 09:41 AM yes I have done this..... surprisingly no one makes an adapter to mate an SM 420 to a 2.2Liter Toyota diesel???? but instead of cutting and welding two stockers together , we fabbed one from scratch SHERPA 11-11-2002, 09:20 AM I custom-built an adapter for a freind'd boat once. motor thatwas swapped-in was an early SBC 327. The tranny/bellhousing was an early buick... I made it from 1" thick aluminum. it worked great. --Sherpa Grandpa Jeep 11-11-2002, 10:01 AM I modified a T-5 bell for a Ford 2.3L to fit a T-18. http://www.jeeptech.com/oliver/images/ModifiedBellhousing1.JPG I had a machinist weld in some 1" thick aluminum blocks where they needed to go and drilled and tapped them for the tranny bolt pattern. beerisgood 11-11-2002, 01:10 PM hows it hold up grandpa, I would think those welds would be a weak point? Grandpa Jeep 11-11-2002, 01:57 PM Well, when I get it running, I'll let you know.:emb: I certainly don't anticipate any problems with it though. I don't see why it would be much weaker than what it was. The aluminum was pretty thin everywhere except where the bolts for the tranny threaded in. There's a lot more weld around the blocks than there was material around the bosses, so I would think it would be just as strong if not stronger. Berg 11-11-2002, 03:28 PM I recently saw a mitsubishi 6DR diesel engine mated to a land Cruiser 4 speed by means of a steel plate on the back of the Diesel and was weld to the 2f bellhouing ( cast steel) He ran it for 15 k till the head went south on the diesel | |