8BA Truck Oil Pan Question

I have a Flathead 8ba oil pan from a truck and want to use it with a stamped steel belhousing from a 51 Ford p***enger car. There is a dust sheild that goes between the truck pan and the truck starter plate. Do I need to use this dust shield? I dosen't look like it will fit between the p***enger car starter plate and the truck bellhousing.

Before you ask, I want to use the stamped bellhousing to mount a 64 ford toploader 4 speed to it. This toploader only has 4 bolt holes and will mount up to the stamped steel bellhousing. I would like to keep the rear sump pan. I'm putting it in a 34 Ford truck.

Hope someone can help.

 

The truck starter plate has a larger opening in that area than the car plate so that the extra aluminum piece will fit. I guess the truck was expected to be in a harsher envrionment than the car. I think you would be fine as long as you use the car version of the starter plate.

 

Anybody else know about this?

 

See if this link helps. 44 pages of a pdf file with good info from the MSN flathead site compliments of V8Bob and Moe Fuzz.

Jim

http://www.flatheadv8.org/bellhousing.pdf

 

Also, it is just something to stop dust...so it seems to me that just a short piece of weatherstrip rubber or a short piece of rubber hose bent into a curve and shoved into the crevice between pan and plate would do the job. Otherwise, it might be possible to use the actual truck seal there if you cut the p***enger plate out to match in that area...they must be in very nearly the same plane there.

 

I just put a truck pan on my 8BA a few weeks ago. I just ditched the shield.

Rich

 

Yeah, if dust is settling on your clutch you need to drive faster...

As Car Craft said once in a vaguely similar situation..."Who ever heard of dust on a racecar torque converter??" (Clang! dust cover for torque converter hits the bin...)

 

Thanks for the help. I'll try just not using it. I'm a little concerned though because along with the rubber strip at the bottom of the shield there is also a rubber "seal" at the top of it that goes behind the rear main. The truck exploded veiw I have of the oil pan ***embly dosen't even show the dust shield which seems odd.

As far as using it between the car starter plate and the pan, It dosen't look like it will work. The starter plate for the truck is not only notched to fit around the shield but also has a "recess" stamped into it.

 

The upper seal on that little casting is also a dust shield, not anything having to do with engine oil. Seems like stuffing the space would take care of all concerns...

 

Thanks for all the info. I'll ditch the sheild. Not really worried about the dust issue for a street car, or in this case truck.