transmission identification

[LittleHorse]

not on an RBV, but at least it's a Ford.

A coworker of mine just bought an '81 F-250 4x4 with a 400 big block...the engine is not doing real well so he's thinking of swapping in a working fuel injected 300 straight six from a '95 F-150 that he already has sitting around. We're trying to figure out if there is a bellhousing that will mate this transmission to the 300.

Obviously, knowing what kind of transmission it is would be helpful...

 

[BlackBII]

Well, the 300 has the small block/351W bolt pattern, while I beleive the 400 shares the big block 351C bolt pattern....

I would do some research and see if you can find out for sure.

 

[LittleHorse]

that's what I've found so far. Now I'm trying to figure out if the same transmission was ever used with a small block pattern engine, so we would know whether the proper bellhousing exists, and what it needs to come from.

 

[BlackBII]

Auto or Manual?

 

[LittleHorse]

Auto or Manual?

stupid me for not mentioning that...it's a manual, 4 speed. I haven't seen it but he says it definitely has a detachable bell housing, and he says the case is cast iron.

 

[BlackBII]

My guess is it'll be either a T18/19 or a NP435, both of which I'm pretty sure can use the SB bellhousing. Most have casting numbers on the side of 'em. I'd crawl under there and take a looksy.

 

[AllanD]

Well, the 300 has the small block/351W bolt pattern, while I beleive the 400 shares the big block 351C bolt pattern....

I would do some research and see if you can find out for sure.

The 351C used the small block pattern like a windsor or a 4.9.

the 351M/400 uses the same bellpattern as the 385-series engine (370/429/460) as a bit of engine trivia the 385 engine series gets
it's name from the 3.85" stroke.

so a 429/460 would bolt right up to that bellhousing, but to use
a 4.9 or 351W would require another bellhousing.

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[BlackBII]

351M, that's what I meant, sorry!

Allan, you are just full of so much useful info!

Good to see your back active on the forum these past weeks, have you gotten a new computer yet? One running at least XP I hope....

 

[AllanD]

what caused all my problems were a combination of fratricide between a couple of faulty power supplies, a bad solder joint on my P3-550 mother board and a bunch of leaky caps.

My first three attempts to get up again resulted in further crashes

My desire to upgrade from win98 to Win2K aggrevated the situation.
because when I had the first computer "up" I formatted my new drives
NTFS and installed all my important data on them. and during a fallback attempt I discovered that win98 can't "see" NTFS drives... Oops...

But my computer was basically incapable of defragging drives that large that were formatted FAT32... Oops....


What I'm running now is a P4-2.4 and Win2k-SP4
I've got a 160Gb, Two 80Gb, a 60Gb, a 40gb and two 15gb drives

I've got my operating system on one of the 15gb drives and the other
is a drive that crashed several times when used for my boot drive
I now use it as a "Scratch pad" drive for freshly ripped audio
I make my mp3s, do my tagging, then defrag the individual files before transfering the files to my actual storage drives.

the 60gb is purely for audio playback, I use it for nothing else.

All my data is redundantly stored.

I NEED XP to run some of the applications I want
but I'm wanting to d that with a sealed registered copy of XP
and a fairly fast Core2 Duo board (don't need a quad and can't afford one anyway)

If I had a powersupply for the laptop I was given (a Gateway M350WVN)
and a 320gb IDE laptop drive... I'd have an XP machine up and running

I depend on the charity of the various "Early adopters" I know for hand me down computer parts.... hell the MoBo I'm running was a hand me down and the processor one I got out of a computer I found in the back of a Dodge Mini-Van in the junkyard.

My 60gb HDD came out of the same junk computer
but my 160gb I bought NEW last november just before
everything started dropping dead.

I'm poor and not particularly proud so if you've got any obsolete computer parts
I promise to "Love'em and Hug'em and Name'em George".

What I need is not some serious gamer's last computer, but the one before that...

BTW, LittleHorse, where in OK are you? anywhere near Norman or OK City?

Have any interest in a 1973 Carb 460engine?

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