"Terrible Tom" <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The bell housings on my 2wd and my 4x4 tranny are totally different.
> Here's the kicker. The engine in christine was originally in the 2wd.
> When I went to bolt the 2wd tranny up to the engine it was originally
> used with, the problem was with the bell housing on the drivers side.
> I'll have to get pics to show you. I forgot how the starter mounts on
> teh 2wd - but on the 4x4 - it bolts TO the bellhousing - not the engine.
Yes, but he's already got a combination that's already together and running.
Why not just move it as a unit after the body's off of the old truck and
before the body goes onto the new truck? Then it would be relatively easy
to pinpoint any problems right away.
> >
> > It just doesn't make sense that dodge would cast two seperate engine
blocks
> > and trans bellhousings - one for 2wd and another for 4wd.
>
>
> Engines are the same - bellhousings arnt
How can two different bellhousings bolt up to the same motor? If they're
really *that* different I suspect you'd have all sorts of other issues to go
with that.
> Differences in the front suspensions are too great I think - the effort
> required to do such a thing would not be worth it if you ask me. I'll
> try and get pics of my two trannys in the next day or so. Off to work I
go
Would that effort be more or less than swapping frames? And please post
pics, I really don't understand how they could be that different and still
bolt to the motor correctly.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L All facts have been omitted from this post. www.omg-stfu.com
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