Have a 305/t56 trans from a early 2000 Camaro? Needing to figure out what I need for the hydraulic arm of the slave cylinder. If that makes sense? The car project came with a pedal system already, but no part to work with trans. Help and Thx Michael
That takes a specific F body hydraulic pull slave cylinder for about 1993 to 1996 whatever years that that generation still had real small block Chevys. But it also uses a specific clutch, p/p and flywheel. Sounds like you may have some parts that can be bolted together but don’t necessarily work together.
That's not a 2000 transmission, and the 305 was not in a Camaro after 1992. You have a 1993-1997 LT style T56, with a pull clutch. If you want to use stock stuff, the entire hydraulic system is one pre-bled unit, that looks like this: If you look, you will see that the slave cylinder bolts to where you have those two studs in your picture, and end ball on the end of the push rod fits into the cup on the release arm, also shown in your picture. Aftermarket equivalents are also available. Those can be used with different length hoses, or other combinations of parts, to fit your application.
There are adapters, that go in place of the factory hydraulic line fittings: And adapt them to AN-3, so you can run any length line you want.
It is a pull-diaphragm clutch. The slave cylinder is still a push cylinder. Externally balanced, one-piece rear main seal 305/350's have the same rear profile as the LT1, has the same crank bolt pattern, and the same external balance weight value. TL;DR: Yes, this all works together. Not only that, I used to have this exact setup in one of my cars.
Hey gimpyshotrods, where can I buy this adapter? The local parts store didn’t have it! Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I'm using that setup in my O/T '83 Spirit and it works well. You're lucky you have the throwout fork because they are very hard to find. I bought my clutch and flywheel from American powertrain.
Very valid point about foot room. My '31 Hiboy came to me as a mocked up Brookville bodied rolling chassis started by someone else with manual trans and a below floor pivoted pedal setup similar to '39 Ford from P&J, who built the chassis. Since I wear size 14 shoes, foot room is quite tight and would have been impossible in a '29/'29. Fact is, if I had known about that chain drive setup that allows you to raise the steering column up more on the firewall and not have to use cowl steering, before I had the car almost finished, and with everything painted, I prolly would have used one to get the column outta the way. And had I known what a PITA a hyd. release bearing setup was gonna be beforehand, I would have removed the cobbled up setup with an external slave cylinder and setup with mechanical with Z bar, etc. Wrestled with that setup for quite awhile, and finally installed a McLeod HRB that works, but not like I wanted it to work.
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