Yesterday while I was at the local old junkyard I noticed a 53 to 55 F100 that sat out of the way and looks to be complete,it has a six but I have a good 55 car 272 and when I look it over more closely next weekend and if it's savable it will be coming home with me. I presume I will need a truck timing chain cover with front mount and the bell housing and clutch parts,does anyone know if the truck trans has the same bolt pattern as the car since I have the pre 65 T-5 adapter for a car and would like to use the Mustang T-5 I have. This could become my nice weather daily driver and will need the overdrive since I drive 100 miles daily for work.
I put the 239 out of a '54 Sedan in a '62 Unibody once. It has been since about '73 but I do not recall doing anything special to make it fit. I probably had to screw around with the motor mounts. Everything else was pretty straight forward. Note: shelled the 6, no money and had the Y block.
Mummert used to sell a modified (drilled and welded) truck bell housing to mount a T-5 transmission and an adopter to fit a car bellhousing to a T-5. So I’m guessing the car adapter won’t work on the truck bell. He doesnt show it last time I looked. And I’m referring to the truck bell for the light duty transmission, not the 4 speed granny. Not sure, but the truck bell is deeper I think. The trucks typically had the front crossover exhaust on a V8 or the rams horns. Not sure how the car exhaust with the rear dumps will clear on the drivers side. Passenger side should be ok. The pan, timing cover, and mount have already been covered. Ask over at the Ford Barn or yblocksforever, I’m pretty sure there’s truck guys that have done that, including the T5
Passenger drivers side exhaust manifold won't work on a truck. Rams horns would be best, but he could do the goofy loop out the front of that manifold and back, or just leave it single exhaust
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