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Title: Top Loader bolt pattern
Post by: Royce on December 27, 2021, 05:42:56 PM: Does anyone have an engineering type drawing of the bolt spacing and center hole for a the later Ford 4 speed. Net search turns up zilch
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Post by: Hiriser57 on December 27, 2021, 08:45:49 PM: Try david Kee Toploaders trans website or Modern Drivetrain
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Post by: Royce on December 27, 2021, 09:52:36 PM: Tried Kee I'll try the other
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Post by: FERoadster on December 28, 2021, 01:18:13 AM: Maybe try Bell housing bolt patterns? Just a thought or I could measure one of mine.
Richad >>> FERoadster
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Post by: Royce on December 28, 2021, 09:27:58 AM: No luck on line so far Thanks for the offer Richard... What i really need is an engineering drawing, as I am making up a adapter plate from scratch
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Post by: Joe-JDC on December 28, 2021, 10:13:42 AM: If it is for Y Block, John Mummert, Scott Drake, have them for sale, and Speedway may have them. I have a Mummert, but I am in the process of installing it in my '55. It is a tight fit to the bellhousing and locates off the front pilot shaft housing. Joe-JDC
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Post by: Royce on December 28, 2021, 10:20:51 AM: Joe, mine is for a MEL automatic bell housing that I am trying to adapt so I can put it on the dyno.. It's the later oddball MEL pattern.. No stick bellhousing available.

All I have around here is the narrow Ford pattern, and the dyno won't easily accept that one.. As usual I am pushing a rope uphill
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Post by: 428 GALAXIE on December 28, 2021, 10:46:53 AM: Isn't the TKO bolt pattern same.Those drawings are all-over in the net.
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Post by: Royce on December 28, 2021, 12:17:14 PM: Anybody know the answer to that
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Post by: pbf777 on December 28, 2021, 01:07:39 PM: Yes, the Tremec 3550 & TKO series (Ford applications) have the same case bolt pattern as the Top loader, this as I believe the originally intended application bellhousing use was the S.R.O.D. unit, but do check which register diameter is applicable. :)
Scott.
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Post by: ms7103 on December 28, 2021, 01:10:57 PM: Does the dyno only accept ford top loader pattern? maybe you could use gm Muncie bolt pattern? just a suggestion
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Post by: Royce on December 28, 2021, 02:18:09 PM: I think I would break out in hives if I used the Munchie pattern... Although I considered it...
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Post by: gdaddy01 on December 28, 2021, 03:18:04 PM: good laugh , thanks
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Post by: gdaddy01 on December 28, 2021, 03:57:51 PM: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/3_03-20diminsions-jpg.4546545/
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Post by: gdaddy01 on December 28, 2021, 03:59:39 PM: maybe this will help , trying to get it to you , don't know if it is working .
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Post by: Royce on December 28, 2021, 07:02:30 PM: That's half of the story. thanks still need measurements from center of shaft hole to the bolt holes
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Post by: pbf777 on December 28, 2021, 09:40:54 PM: Quote from: Royce on December 28, 2021, 10:20:51 AM
It's the later oddball MEL pattern.

"Later", so of the three bellhousing to block patterns for the M.E.L.'s, not the '58-'60; I'm guessing your saying yours is the really "oddball" '61-'65 second version; or the "later" or last '66-'68 version? :-\

Scott.
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Post by: Royce on December 29, 2021, 10:00:00 AM: 61 to 65 version aluminum auto bell housing
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Post by: pbf777 on December 29, 2021, 12:59:50 PM: Bummer! :(

Scott.