Hey guys!!! I just scored a complete running 265 out of a 56 Chevy for FREE!!!!! It is complete with 4 barrel carb, oil bath air filter, distribitor, plugs, wires, generator, pulleys, even a belt! But what it didn't come with was a flywheel. It was in front of a powerglide and I would like to put it in my model A with a saginaw 3 speed. Sooooo.... will a flywheel from a 350 or most any other small block (besides a 400) work with this motor? Are they balanced differntly? Thanks for any help!!!!
Except the 400 small block flywheel that you mentioned, the 2 piece main seal flywheels are neutral balance and interchangeable. Bob
Get the Tri-5 stock open bottom, side mount, cast-iron bellhousing and you are good to go! I mention this b/c the tranny hangs out in the air which will allow you to R&R a clutch in like 30 to 45 minutes if you are quick! He, He!! pdq67 PS., and you can buy a stock '60's SB 'Vette/409 "W" engine big car open bottom aluminum bellhousing that is dam near the same as the CI b/h IF you want to save some weight and also spend some coin!
ANY cast iron V-8 bellhousing, and a 168 tooth flywheel will get you where you need to be. There are also some aluminum bellhousings that will work, but plan on paying mucho dinero for one of those (Vettes and 409's). You see, it takes a BELLHOUSING mounted starter, there are no provisions for a block mounted starter on the early 265 engines. Now, there is an adapter of sorts, that all of the tri-five vendors sell, so you can use a late model automatic on the early 265; they run about $100.00. You could use it with a large aluminum bellhousing; it stioll requires a 168 tooth flywheel or flex plate. It's a blanchard ground steel plate that gets sandwiched between the engine/trans, and a starter bolts to it. Just a FYI, the adapter plate also works to salvage a block whose starter mount pad has been broken off (a common occurence). Butch/56sedandelivery. WOW!, it looks like pdg67 thinks along the same lines as I do; now we're in trouble.
The cast iron bell early housings with the side mounts and starter provisions are common swap meet items. I have one that I found in a horse stable. Fit Chevy 3, 4 and 5 speeds through the T-5.
It’s been decades since I played with a tri-Chevy but IIRC the six cylinder blocks had a different bell housing bolt pattern. I think it was ‘63 when the six and V8 bells became common. If you find the correct bell you need the three bolt bell housing mounted starter and the larger diameter, 168 tooth flywheel. There are different clutch bolt patterns on Chevy ‘wheels, very early ones are drilled for 10” (what the factory used in the early period) and those will take todays 10 1/2” pressure plates. Some were also drilled for both 10 1/2” or 11” pressure plates. Chevy ‘wheels pretty much interchange except for the 400 small block which has a counterweight cast in the back side. For the engine you are building (from your previous thread) I’d go with a 10 1/2” clutch. Be careful with bells, some trucks have a larger (5 1/8”?) register diameter but there are also early pickup bells with the correct register that have a different angle machined where the bell housing side mounts bolt on should you be building a tri-Chevy automobile.
Only 1963 and newer……if you install a used automatic engine in a stick shift car the rear main seal is going to leak.
1955-up V8 and 1963-up Six (194, 230, 250, 292) use the same bolt pattern on the back of the block. The earlier 235 "stovebolt" six uses something completely different.
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