can someone give me a measurment from bell housing surface to center of the trans mount bolt pad?

what size is the front bearing retainer hole? a833 has smaller hole a833OD has the larger hole correct?

thanks

Scratchy,,, the measurement is the same as any "Normal" 904/727.. The diameter of the hole is 5.125, same as the NP435.. The 88/93 hyd bells for the OD833 and the 425s have the dual bolt patterns..

ok,just wondering if you can use the hydro bell to stick a 833OD in instead of a 5 speed.

if it does work,then I am going to nab the 833OD trans with shifter laying in the back of a truck hooked to a /6 at the u-pull.

workbench high,4 bolts to remove it,80 bux out the door.

I thinks me will grabs it for the spare v-8 hydro bell I have on the way.

I was also interested in that measurement to compair the 5 speed to to see if the xmember is in the sma place or would I have to drill new holes in the 85 frame for the newer style xmember/trans combos.

thanks shorty

Mike when I did my V8 swap, the right engine mount lined up. The driver's side needed a plate fabbed up. The trans mount was off a bit.I mounted the crossmember in the stock location, but had to drill two holes on the bottom of the passenger side frame rail. The 5 speed member mounted different on the bottom, with just one bolt. There are spacers/ renforment plates that go under the trans mount bolts. I laid the plates in front of the trans mount, and that was excatly how far off the bolt holes were. Had a guy at work weld a plate under the trans mount and it worked perfectly.

thats with the 88 frame and 833OD correct?

both of my frames are 85, so I can mount the 318 on its mounts and fit the xmber/trans mount, if they are no holes or off from stock holes, I will drill them as needed to fit the newer xmember in there. same with it useing the 5 speed.

I think I have kicked the turdflight blues.

'88 frame,318,904

I have an 89 that was factory 3.9 and it has a 318. Seems to have bolted rite in

Auto floor pan or stick ??

looking at some 88-93 manual trans trucks and a couple 88-93 auto trucks the floor hump looks about the same.

I am going to pull a measurement from the back cab wall to center of shifter hole. then a smal hole saw to start the cutting.

I will build a box if ned to cover it.

Might as well grab the bellhousing while you are at it, Slant Six guys are looking to ditch their "turdflites" too. You can sell it in the classifieds.

Put the OD833 behind the 440 !!!!

Yes there is a SB to BB adapter plate but it is redicually expensive.

What do you have against the factory mech linkage bell? You could make an adapter plate to go between the bell and the trans like 85 ram 4speed did..

IIRC there was a post here about making a little bracket to mount a slave cyl to a normal bell by utilizing a the lower starter stud and drilling a hole in the bell.

yea, fabing up the slave on a mech linkage bell is ez enuff, the lakewood bell sounds like a option.

The trans will fit in the non-humped floor, but you still have to cut some out and make some type of hump for it unless you get one out of another truck. I am opting to make my own as I feel the factory floor hump is just obnoxiously huge and encroaches to much on the area for the gas pedal. I had to cut a hole for the shifter and some foward for part of the linkage to get it to fit.

Digging this back up to add to it. I made my own floor hump for the stock auto floor pan with my 833 O/D. While overall I am happy with it, I wish I thought ahead a little bit as far as the front edge is concerned. It is still encroaching on the gas pedal like the stock 4X4 floor, which I don't like. I may be able to fix that, but I do like the fact I have ALOT of acess when its removed.

I made it by starting with 3/4 x 1/8" steel to make a flange. Then had a piece of 20 gauge steel bent to a 90 degree bend and then just filled in the ends and rt side. BTW, that is a Van shifter handle in there, It does not hit the dash as some mentioned it would (did they actually try it?) and it fits perfectly with the later BR (94-01)Ram seat I installed.

Part way through assembly. There is a 1/4" bolt that will go where the cleco pins are. I used 1/4" u-nuts, or clip nuts, mounted on the floor pan to capture them.






Here is the stock boot ring, with a boot that came out of some newer jeep product. The Jeep boot had an intergrated plastic boot ring which I intended to use, but it was just way to big to fit on the hump. So I cut it and one ring/rib of the boot itself off to fit the stock ring. I like this boot as it is offset at the shifter handle hole vs. being centered like the stock one--I think it fits better that way.

thanks for the pic update, i will be doing something along the lones of that...good idea on the flage strip then the 20 gauge box weld to flange.

i did the same green as my truck..almost like looking at mine in those pics.