Ford MG9394 Bellhousing

[thatdarncat]

427John, do you have any photos of the FE bellhousing with right side clutch linkage? I have never heard of such a thing, although many of the Australian 59 style "Tank" Fairlanes had 332s, although I didn`t know if they were available with a manual transmission. I would have to think trying to engineer a clutch fork setup to fit past the long shaft starter motor, not to mention the RHD steering box would be rather challenging, to say the least.

Here’s a picture of the CAK-6394-A one in the link I shared above. It has a flat on the passenger side that could be opened up, and a provision for a clutch fork pivot.

[427John]

In this pic you can see clearly that the rivets for the fulcrum are on the right side and that the left side is is undrilled.Unfortunately there is no other view of it showing the fork hole or the inside but this leaves little room for other conclusions.

[427John]

Just googled the australian fairlane and according to wikipedia it was manufactured 59-62 with a 332 FE the custom 300 and ranch wagon came with 3 speed manual as standard the fairlane 500 came with auto so depending how accurate that info is maybe mystery solved.

[gwingard]

Sorry to be so long in getting back on track with this topic.  To answer 427John's question, "gwingard was your Mcleod PP an 11.5/12? If so did it clear the MG bell without grinding?"  My Mcleod PP is an 11 incher.  I didn't do any grinding to make it fit.  This PP did hit on my factory C3AA6394 A bellhousing.  What a nightmare!  I'm really happy that I was able to make the MG9394 work.  Hopefully it keeps working as my clutch wears!

[427John]

Thats weird an 11" PP should have fit in the C3AA bell no problem since thats what they came with originally.Maybe the way Mcleod makes their PP takes up a little more room when installed,or your C3AA bell had a little casting flash in the wrong spot.You had me excited there for a minute thinking that a 11.5 PP would fit in them.

[gwingard]

To say I was surprised that the Mcleod didn't fit my original bell would be an understatement.  Like a dope I failed to turn the motor over by hand when I first assembled the clutch and transmission.  When I went to start it for the first time the motor turned about 30 degrees and locked up which damaged the trust surfaces on my brand new main bearings.  Was an expensive mistake I'll never make again...

[TomP]

That CRAK bellhousing is a shocker. I could have sworn they had a left side fork and Z bar and a crazy mechanical linkage with a tube across the firewall to operate it in the diagrams and pictures i've seen. The column shift rods had two tubes across the firewall so there was a bunch of crossshafts on the firewall plus the wiring and brake line.

Was there maybe manual trannies with right side levers?

[427John]

The Aussie application is just speculation,it could be for something else altogether such as agricultural (combine or balewagon),it just seemed right hand drive could be a possible explanation.I was guessing that the R in the CRAK vs CAK prefix indicated right hand drive.

[TomP]

I would think it must mean Right as well. I Googled for pictres of an Aussue 59 Ford ... tried every slang term, "tank Fairlane" etc, and all are frickin' slushboxes. I fugured there must be one for sale with a Bring-a-Trailer style ad with 200 pictures.