Re: 318, over drive 4 speed help
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Does the 318 crank have a pilot busing in it now or not ![scope scope](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/scope.gif) If not you will need to make sure that crank is usable for the 4 speed input shaft, not all of them where ![shock shock](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/shock.gif) The pilot shaft bushing hole needs to be really deep on the pilot shaft bushing hole, really deep ![scope scope](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/scope.gif) Post what you find out and we will go from there ![up up](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/thumbs_up.gif)
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Re: 318, over drive 4 speed help
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There is only one bushing from that era, fits all engines and trans combos made in that era.
If that one part don't fit your crank isn't machined for manual trans use.
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Re: 318, over drive 4 speed help
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Be sure and check to make certain the depth of the hole is enough, as said above. If it isn't, the least of your troubles will be a failed thrust bearing if you try and turn the motor over, and probably a crank needing to be repaired by welding/machining the thrust surface, plus trans damage. DAMHIK
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Re: 318, over drive 4 speed help
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The bushing above more properly fits into the "pilot hole" for the stubby locating nub on the front of a torque converter. Any crank will have that machined already. That's the beauty of using the conversion bearing, the ugly part is cutting off the end of the transmission input shaft.
Even if your crank has deeper four speed pilot machined, be wary of just popping a bushing in there and installing a transmission. On my 360 crank the manual transmission pilot was there already by the machine shop reported it had a good 1/8 inch run out. Good thing I was going back with an automatic anyway.
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Re: 318, over drive 4 speed help
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Yeah, in this case the crank register bearing can be made to work cause it's a later model engine, but early ones use a smaller register and the bearing will not work.
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Re: 318, over drive 4 speed help
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12/23/16 06:41 PM
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Wow, the Scary Police are out in full force today. For most any kind of Mopar engine, the bearing that fits in the torque converter ring is simply and directly the best way to go. They are OEM in more than a million vehicles, and continue to be used, as far as I know.
Unless you feel urged by a higher power to completely disassemble an engine and take the crank to a machine shop that's set up for cranks, and many are not, then the alternative above is the best.
There is usually a hole in the end of the crank and as it's close too the OD of the first style pilot bushing, it is larger than the tip of the input shaft. That means the extra part of the input shaft will be in that hole and you don't have to cut off anything. It worked for me.
Best idea is to measure first and then see what needs to be done.
If the hole isn't long enough it should be possible to drill it a little deeper using a hand drill and proper sized bit. You are just gaining space, not precision machining.
The idea that the input shaft has to be cut is trotted out by people who want to scare you into doing it their way.
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Last edited by dogdays; 12/23/16 06:44 PM.
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Re: 318, over drive 4 speed help
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I said nothing about cutting the input shaft.
I said the bearing that presses into the torque converter register on the crank WILL NOT work on an early LA's. There is NOTHING you can do with a drill to fix that.
Just to restate it again, the engine the OP is thinking of using is NOT one of those, but other people do read these threads.
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Re: 318, over drive 4 speed help
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99.99999% probability that a '68 crank will be pilot-drilled but probably not reamed to final size of .9375". Since the pilot drill size is larger than the input shaft, the register-mounted bushing will work.
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