Technical *** November 2015 Banger Meet - Holidays are just around the corner ***

Couldn't hurt but not sure how much it would help. The air cleaner that all the parts places sell for Stock A's just made my car run too rich. I've read about adding a balance tube to the carb but for me it was just simpler to not run an aircleaner.

 

Thanks,
I don't think it was necessary but I wanted the big flat gusset out of the way so it'll be ready for the Kong 5 main girdle engine I plan to run soon.
That big flat gusset is on there to support the huge hole for the old mount on the center of the cross member.
I did weld the hole shut and ground down a spot so water and oil wouldn't catch.
Joe

 

Thanks for the picture, and your efforts on this project.

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No problem!
Thanks for your interest and support.
Joe

 

TINY , where is " Far, Far Northern California " ?

 

Redding, I'm closer to Oregon than any major city in California

 

What, like Weed is not a major city!?!? Hell it is a growth industry.

 

Ha!!!
It was but sadly the fire took half the town last year.

 

530sandman nice posts and shots of your engine setup

 

nor-cal is getting crowed several of us pretty close now .

 

my NEW balancer ! awesome to me .................... thank you sand man

 

people here (mild hot rods) seem to have good with rebuilts .

 

I grew up in Yreka, a hundred miles north of Redding, Weed was smaller town to our south. Yreka was northern CA.

 

Weed is just a few miles from Mayhill in the Sacramento mountains of New Mexico. Becky Dean was from Weed. She had a '62 Ford F-100 PU with an Aoooooga horn. She liked nothing better than to sneak up on you from behind, rolling with the engine off, and hit the Aooooooga horn. She would laugh and laugh. I had enough and wired the Aooooooga horn into the brake light switch. You always knew where Becky Dean was, especially at the one 4 way stop that Weed has.

 

I have hauled so many RxR ties from there . great lumber town at one time ...

 

Picked up this B bellhousing at Hershey, did they make another style that had a flat Model A style side mounting or are all B's like this ?

 

Close up of side. Bob

 

I have one in my stack of stuff. I will look at it. I think the one I have is the same as the one in the picture.

 

Bob, that is the 33-34 four cylinder clutch housing. 46- part number, I think....
32 has flat areas for the steady rod brackets, not same as model A...

What is the number stamped in the pad on top?

 

Number on top starts with a B after the star. Bob

 

If I'm reading your question correctly, the flat sides that the rear motor mounts would bolt on are on the lower half of the Bell housing on the back of the oil pan.

 

The bellhousing I got at Hershey was ID'd as a 33-34, I think the '32 had one that was unique to that year. The oil pans had nothing to do with rear mounts as I remember them. Bob

 

I have a 32 BB upper flywheel housing, which mates with the B block and the stock B oil pan. it has flat sides, with 2 bolt holes on each side like an A flywheel housing. I also have other 32-34 upper flywheel housings like the one in your picture which do not have machined flat sides.

 

Even though the machined area looks similar, it's not the same as model A

 

I'd like to see photos of whatever fits between the chassis and both of these bellhousings. Bob

 

Here are some photos that will hopefully shed some light on differences between the 1932 flywheel housing and the 1933-34 flywheel housing pictured above. The first photo shows the 1932 flywheel housing with the flat sides, followed by photos of the bolt-on bracket for the steady rods which connected the flywheel housing to the K-member. The brackets are slightly angled and are marked R and L for the right and left sides.



The bolt spacing on the B flywheel housing is 2-5/8 inches versus 2-1/4 inches on the Model A flywheel housing so the B housing will not bolt up to the Model A motor mounts. Antique Auto Parts in Rosemead CA made a version of the Float-a-Motor mounts for installing a B motor in an A chassis by bolting up to the 1932 flywheel housing. As far as I know that is the only aftermarket system for bolt on side mounts that fit a Model B engine. The major parts of that system are shown below followed by a comparison of the B bracket described above with an A motor mount showing the difference in bolt spacing.


The Float-a-Motor for the B uses the same round rubber biscuits as the Model A version, but there is no mount to tie into the center crossmember like there is for the Model A. These mounts used to be available from several different suppliers, but have been out of production for quite a while and are getting very hard to find. My buddy was looking for a set about a year ago and found that Bert's Model A parts in Denver had bought up what was left of Antique Auto's stock; they had one set left which he purchased. Bert's told him they were thinking about making up some more sets, but I don't know if they have actually made any.

 

Bob, 5280A2 above covers it pretty well, but to clarify, the A used side mounts, whereas B used the same rear transmission mount at the K-member as the V8. The steady rod brackets are what bolted to the sides of the B flywheel housing, and those rods were bolted to the face of the K-member and ran up to the brackets pictured above.

Dave

 

OK, now I understand, the B doesn't have any side mounts just the steady rods, thanks. Bob

 

What's the best way to adapt a later V8 tranny to an A banger? The Cling's kit is nice.... but I already sold my spare kidney a while ago.

 

Graeme MacNeil in New Zealand makes a nice adapter.
www.macsspeed.com is/was his website. Having problems right now.