Re: Stewart's 1955 Packard 400
Posted by Stewart Ballard On 2016/8/1 20:43:17
I put my other project into a second post to keep them straight.
I placed the engine on the frame late last week. The body mounts are bolted in and I have the oil pan supported with some 2x6's. You can see all the 700R4 conversion hardware attached below.
Sunday morning I attempted to drop the transmission in place but ran in to a little problem. The conversion plates were fine. The problem was the transmission cross member.
Bendtsen's websites says that they no longer sales the cross member with the conversion kit. I thought that may mean that it is sold separately so I emailed Bob to inquire about it. He said that he no longer makes them at all but, he had a few left that "were flawed" and I could have one of those for the cost of shipping. He said I "might have to elongate some holes" to make it work. When it arrived all the holes for the frame mounting and the trans body mount matched up fine.
So Sunday morning when I dropped it in behind the engine everything up front went into place perfectly but the transmission oil pan was about 1/4" over the top of the cross member. They had welded this one about 1/2" to close. You might be able to see it in the close up below.
I have already dropped it off with a friend that is going to grind off the ends and move it up for me. Hopefully in a week or two I'll have it all in place.
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I placed the engine on the frame late last week. The body mounts are bolted in and I have the oil pan supported with some 2x6's. You can see all the 700R4 conversion hardware attached below.
Sunday morning I attempted to drop the transmission in place but ran in to a little problem. The conversion plates were fine. The problem was the transmission cross member.
Bendtsen's websites says that they no longer sales the cross member with the conversion kit. I thought that may mean that it is sold separately so I emailed Bob to inquire about it. He said that he no longer makes them at all but, he had a few left that "were flawed" and I could have one of those for the cost of shipping. He said I "might have to elongate some holes" to make it work. When it arrived all the holes for the frame mounting and the trans body mount matched up fine.
So Sunday morning when I dropped it in behind the engine everything up front went into place perfectly but the transmission oil pan was about 1/4" over the top of the cross member. They had welded this one about 1/2" to close. You might be able to see it in the close up below.
I have already dropped it off with a friend that is going to grind off the ends and move it up for me. Hopefully in a week or two I'll have it all in place.
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