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Bellhousing bolt patterns.


Metalriff

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ASE Certified Tech
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City
Iron River MI
Vehicle Year
1969
Transmission
Manual
Hi, I’m looking for bellhousing pattern info for 3.0, early Duratec . Thanks.
 
3.0 had its own pattern. If you’re looking for measurements or something, I don’t have measurements. But if you’re after a transmission I believe it has to be off a 3.0 because none of the other motors share that pattern
 
Thank you for the fast reply. I’m trying to find the 4.6 Front wheel drive bolt pattern . Lincoln Continental etc Some say it’s similar to the Duratec v6. Thank you
 

Vulcan V6 pattern
3.0L Vulcan V6 (FWD Taurus/Sable and RWD Ranger, but no relation to the 2.9L)
3.0/3.2L SHO Yamaha designed V6
3.8L Canadian Essex 90° V6 (FWD only) (not the same as the 60° British Essex V6).

Duratec V6 pattern
2.5L/3.0L Duratec V6
3.4L DOHC SHO V8

Modular V8 pattern
4.6L SOHC/DOHC V8 (later castings, F3VE and up)
5.0 Coyote DOHC V8
5.4L SOHC/DOHC V8
6.0L Powerstroke
6.2L Boss
6.8L Triton SOHC V10
7.3L Ford Godzilla

Lincoln Continental Modular V8 pattern
4.6L DOHC V8 FWD

Lincoln has a separate listing
 
Hollander parts interchange manuals.

maybe call a local salvage yard and ask if they have one.

the 4.6 DOHC 4V in a 1995 Continental has a special block. FWD, to mate to the same transaxle that the 3.8 engine uses.

@rubydist do you remember an attempted 4.6 swap into an early SHO a few years ago on the SHOforum?
I think there was a discussion about that unique bell housing bolt pattern there.
 
I do recall that the fwd 4.6 has a unique bell housing, but I don't recall the details.
 
I also exploreded this once. and found NO definative avswer. The discussion was had here on TRS, somewhere.
I had a FWD Continental that was headed to the scrap yard and was wondering if it coud be used in a Rwd application. Transmission was the brick wall, but somebody mentioned it "might" be the same as a 3.0 but I dont remember if it was the Vulcan or Duratec. I'm thinkung Vulcan because of the Taurus. I think the same FWD trans ( AX4N ) that bolts to the 3.0 was used in the Continetal also, or something like that.

Found this on Wikipedia, for what it's worth. Tha same trans was used in the Continertal AND Taurus with the 3.0, now to founs out if they had the same bolt battern.
Applications:

 
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24v Duretec bolt pattern

 
3.0 had its own pattern. If you’re looking for measurements or something, I don’t have measurements. But if you’re after a transmission I believe it has to be off a 3.0 because none of the other motors share that pattern

The FWD applications of the Essex V6 share the 3.0s bellhousing.

So if you wanted to you could get a 3.8 from a minivan or whatever and a 4.2 from a truck, dump the 4.2 rotating assembly into the 3.8 block and swap it into a formerly 3.0 powered vehicle. Would make for a cool Taurus wagon...
 

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