Technical Is this a fluid drive transmission?

I'm thinking no because the bell-housing isn't deep enough that pilot bearing stickout looks awfully long for a normal transmission so I though I'd run it by you guys.

 

Well, first off, there's not such thing as a "fluid drive transmission", a fluid coupling is simply that, a fluid coupling behind the normal clutch, then whatever transmission was stuck behind that. That looks like a normal 3 speed from your old Dodge, DeSoto, or Chrysler. The bell housing with a Fluid Drive is, as one would imagine, much deeper because it's covering the clutch and the fluid coupler.

 

this is fluid, not what you have

 

Just a 3 spd Mopar. But that's what Dodge used with a fluid drive coupling in front of it, with a different Main Drive Gear., and called a Fluid Drive. Manually shifted but not necessary to use the clutch to start and stop. Could be left in high if desired and one could wait for the slow acceleration.

Higher end cars got the hydraulic/electric shift M6 with fluid drive.

 

Thanks guys, that's what I figured. Bell is to shallow but the length of input shaft through me for a loop. This isn't a trans I have. One that someone sent me pictures of asking if I wanted to buy it. To which the answer was "I need to check" and is now "no"

 

I went through this back in the mid-sixties when I built my T "Bucket" with a 241 ci Hemi. The car I got the engine from had "Gyro-matic" or whatever Dodge called their version of fluid drive. As said, the bell housing was very deep. Not wanting to run that transmission, I went back to the junkyard, and they found a flywheel, clutch, and a transmission with a real long input shaft as shown. It was out of a regular stick car.

 

Ok, let's try this again. Seller thinks it's a fluid drive. Pretty clearly a fluid drive set up for a flathead 6 to me.

Are there any fluid drive specific parts that are so critical that are missing here that I should hold off on buying this?

 

Looks like a fluid drive to me.