518 to OD833 behind my BB 86 RC

Got the carpet pulled up so far...I was surprised to how nice my 28 year old floor board looked up front.

Passenger side view.....

Trans & bellhousing that I'm going to be useing..

Very solid looking.
Good start.
I'll be watching this one.
I want to do something similar in a 76.
It already has a 4 speed, but it's a granny gear set-up.
Where did you get the hump? Come with the trans?
Could you please mention where every thing came from.
Thanx tons.

Are you talking about the black fiber glass piece...from a salvage yard....I have another one if you need one. I forget where I got the bell from...hard to find...there is a sight that still has it listed for sale....but expensive....I paid a little less, but not much.....my Dad ran that trans in a 71 pickup back in the day.

Yeah I meant the fiberglass part.
P.M. me
I wont need pedals but linkage, drive, shaft and the rest.
I would imagine most would be sourced at the pick n pull.
What year trucks should I be looking for?
Hopefully I could get it all from the same truck.
I'm probably gonna use a 360 I have laying around.
I wanted to follow along as the rest will be the similar enough.

Well I finally getting this done.....what do you guys recommend for sealing the floor around the the reinforcement plates for the z-bar.

So we can't post pictures anymore?

Not sure about pic posting ... I'll try ...


worked that time. There are several steps to it, and I usually forget one ...

Testing

The carpet actually had cut outs of a truck four speed and the 4x4 shifter, but not for the car four speed hole....oh well....still cool that it had those two items.

Getting ready to swap the peddles out here and drill the holes for the reinforcement plate.

Any ideas?

Dimples that need drilling.....

In this pix you can see the swing set hanging also already.

top plate down also in this picture I still need to unscrew the plate for the clutch rod to go threw.

Getting stuff painted......

so did that 833 come off a chevy diesel truck?----i have never heard of one on a dodge unit as a 4x4 setup....

I downloaded the picture, looks like a car/2wd 833 to me

it must be my old age----BB 2 wheel drive is really cool----you know chevy used them in 1/2 ton and blazers for a few years and they are popular with some of the circle track set....

Correct........ more pictures this week as I get the column back together.....with new grant wood steering wheel to match the pistol grip shifter and Pentastar horn button.

The Chevy A-833ODs came with Chevy front ends on the transmission, would need an adapter to bolt into a Mopar.

R.

the guy that told me about them said that some had the chevy bolt pattern and some had the dodge pattern---the bellhousing for the dodge one is pretty rare as chevy guys didnt know what they looking at...

Wow, never knew that! So bolting an A-833 behind your 350 is possible with factory parts.

the 833 is a favorite with chevy guys running circle track---remember the 833 hemi is the strongest 4 spd ever and the regular 833 is the second strongest---the budget racers are always looking for them...

The column's done.

Got the bell painted up.

----i found the thread on this gm bell housing----it is an 82-84 6.2 dual pattern #14061655----this makes it happen for the 833.....

and robbins limit your power displays to first and second gear---3rd and 4th are somewhat weak due to being reversed in order on the mainshaft----passon sells a hemi cut gearset for the 833od that is good to 750hp---one of my friends runs one at the dragstrip in a blown stroker 440 with no problems in 5 years---loves it as he can drive on the highway at fairly normal rpms.....

Is that a BB bell housing made for the bigger bearing retainer on the OD trans or did you have to machine the bell housing?

It's a factory dual pattern bell for a truck four speed and the OD833, but you could put any 833 four speed with the correct ring.

I'm really not going to be hot rodding this thing around....ya I wouldn't mind getting that kit.....but to be honest..... I'd rather have his five speed.....and with my change over.... I can go that way when I get rich....lol

The flywheel that I got from a member and the clutch package from Brewer's Performance.

Clutch package

Brewer's Performance....rebuilt a shift box for me and made it a bolt on shifter for the Pistol Grip.

You can still get a new rod that goes threw the firewall.....thanks Jim.

I've seen a two wheel drive one out of cheby on the floor at a friends place (back in the 90's) and it had the Mopar bellhousing pattern.

Nice job! That's the same thing I did. Lucked out on finding a bell housing.

I finally got the trans pulled today.

I got a bracket from Schumacher(?).....I hope it works.....hopefully it'll let me keep the 518 cross member.

I guess I'm not going to run that all cast iron one until I go threw it.....I'm going to put the 80 one out of the swb.

I wish I had the money for a set of 3.54's.

Made some more headway today.

This ultrabell will up for sale.

This is the first for a lot of things for me....one is I will be using a Timken through out bearing and pilot bearing....hope it works out for me.

So far so good on using the 518 crossmember......lots of room to get to everything.

I'm guessing that the two wheel drive RC/TD's had shims between the crossmember & frame is cause of the shorter wheel base than the short bed trucks.....but I'm hoping it's not going to affect the height of the shifter to much.

Still plugging away at it. The rearend cover had a leak....Sure Grip from Dr. Diff. I made a gasket between the floor and the fiber hump....I hope it works. More pictures to come.

She had some light paint bubbles going on took a wire wheel to them.....glad I did.....some hidden surface rust.

Getting closer.