Doh!

 

When I first thought of this my thought was that it should be pretty easy to find a junkyard truck with a 4spd, but alas I cannot find such an animal. I have not been able to find get a clear understanding of what connects the engine to the transmission. If I understand correctly there is an adapter that connects to the rear of the engine, Flywheel Housing? then to a standard Ford small block pattern. If I understand this adapter is basically SAE3 to small block, am I correct on all of this? As I said earlier part of my goal is to make this as simple and bulletproof as possible while keeping the economics in check. If anyone has these parts that they can lay hands on please PM me and see if we can work a deal.

 

The adapter is some crazy IH pattern to some crazy Ford pattern. Ford was kinda on drugs at the time I guess, since they need to have an adapter anyway why not adapt it to 460 bolt pattern instead of spending god knows how much to cast new C6 cases to something some Ford engineer pulled out of his ***.

 

Gas burner bellhousings are easy to find around here. I have in stock from 300/6, 400M, and can lay hands on a 460 housing easily. So the question is if I have a 6.9 from an auto truck can I just change flywheel, add a clutch and go?

 

No. The diesel bell is different from any other Ford product

 

I'll catch on eventually, so anyone know where there is a diesel bellhousing that can be had?

 

Probably the scrap yard, a big block ford bellhousing can be made to fit, there is a sticky about it over on OBN in the tech articles.

 

i have a 87 f-250 with the 6.9 and im putting a 7.3 in it whats it gunna take to make the wiring harness work ?like for the glow plug relay

 

why not start your own thread pertaining to your issue? might help. i will answer you then. dont clog up this mans post.