I picked up a steel bell housing at a swap meet that has both 4-speed
bolt
patterns on it. Since my transmission also had both patterns, I used
all 8 holes.
The problem with these bell housings is that they won't fit in the
factory
transmission tunnel. Guess you''ll have to find that old Rootes guy
with the
big sledge hammer. I modified the bell housing. This is probably not
technically
legal for some racing rules, but it has to be better that the stock
aluminum one.
Tom Hall wrote:
> The elusive dual pattern bellhousings refered to the transmission
> pattern and input bearing retainer diameter that was changed at the same
> time as the 5 bolt to 6 bolt block attachment. I've never seen both block
> patterns on a bellhousing. They also changed the flywheel diameter so the
> application to a 6 bolt block would require the earlier smaller diameter
> flywheel and clutch assembly. To the best of my knowledge, neither
> Lakewood nor Anson ever made the pressed steel housing inthie configuration
> you describe.
>
> Tom Hall
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