Packard V8 in a Studebaker C-cab truck
Posted by Jack Vines On 2010/11/30 12:03:34
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Like any engine swap, the devil is in the details. There is plenty of room in a C-cab Stude as it was designed to take the relatively large Stude V8. However, making the longer Packard V8 fit and look right in there is a lot more work than it might appear at first.
I was ready to drop in the completed engine when a detour arose. Vintage Air has been persuaded to build a bolt-in heater/AC unit for the C-cab. I'm getting one of the first units for a beta test. This requires reworking the front accessory drive and fabricating an AC compressor mount. Much easier to do with the engine on a stand.
ssaeger, which transmission are you using in your build?
I looked at every automatic and 4,5,6-speed manual transmission manufactured in the past sixty years. After much, much consideration, I decided this was a Studebaker-Packard-shoulda-done-it-as-an-option build. Thus, the way to go was with the Studebaker truck T85/T89 3-speed w/overdrive. It is just a great light truck transmission and relatively easy to make fit the Packard V8. It uses the same main case as the Packard version of the T85, but with a short tailshaft and different, lower first and second gear ratios.
There is no commercially available floor shifter kit. Trying to use car components puts the shifter back under the driver's right leg and makes for long, crooked shift rods. I bought an old Hurst shifter and made my own bracket and shifter arms and rods. This took two solid days to design and fabricate. The result is the shifter forward and toward the middle of the tunnel, as it should be on a truck. These shift rods are the shortest, straightest, strongest you'll ever see.
jack vines
by PackardV8 on 2010/11/30 14:19:37 Maybe ssaeger and JV can get a truck with 374 thread going on this forum. I'd really like to follow the projects.
Like any engine swap, the devil is in the details. There is plenty of room in a C-cab Stude as it was designed to take the relatively large Stude V8. However, making the longer Packard V8 fit and look right in there is a lot more work than it might appear at first.
I was ready to drop in the completed engine when a detour arose. Vintage Air has been persuaded to build a bolt-in heater/AC unit for the C-cab. I'm getting one of the first units for a beta test. This requires reworking the front accessory drive and fabricating an AC compressor mount. Much easier to do with the engine on a stand.
ssaeger, which transmission are you using in your build?
I looked at every automatic and 4,5,6-speed manual transmission manufactured in the past sixty years. After much, much consideration, I decided this was a Studebaker-Packard-shoulda-done-it-as-an-option build. Thus, the way to go was with the Studebaker truck T85/T89 3-speed w/overdrive. It is just a great light truck transmission and relatively easy to make fit the Packard V8. It uses the same main case as the Packard version of the T85, but with a short tailshaft and different, lower first and second gear ratios.
There is no commercially available floor shifter kit. Trying to use car components puts the shifter back under the driver's right leg and makes for long, crooked shift rods. I bought an old Hurst shifter and made my own bracket and shifter arms and rods. This took two solid days to design and fabricate. The result is the shifter forward and toward the middle of the tunnel, as it should be on a truck. These shift rods are the shortest, straightest, strongest you'll ever see.
jack vines
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