Is that 185 pounds you say?  I only weigh 150! I'll be sqished like an ant!

Bottom of the pan.. Just a slight tinge of red.

It's out

The leaky seal.

ttotired - 2014-03-26 12:53 AM I got my bands religned, no problems yet, but my cars still only yard driven The master fatsco kit that I got had a lot of stuff that didnt have a home and was missing some other stuff. The main thing was the clutch packs didnt have enough plates to make up the correct thickness, I had to use some from a second kit that I wanted for when I do the plymouth. When I first put it together, the whole lot turned (locked up) because the clutches were to thick I was told $800 to rebuild the trans, should have paid it. Wont stop me though

So did having thicker clutches mean less plates to put in.. I don't know what to do now.. I was nearly poised for buying their set.. I have a guy here that has offered to rebuild the trans. He's a mopar guy and races (although post forward look stuff). He may change his mind when he see this great lump lol.

found some stamped numbers

While my trans is off to the menders I thought about finding a way to secure the bell housing to the cast iron torqueflite a little better. As I have a later engine block from 1965 fitted with early 8 bolt flange crank only the top 5 bell to block bolts line up. The bottom bolt holes on either the bell housing or block don't line up at all.. I thought about drilling the bell housing to make new holes for the lower block ones and tap them to accept bolts but the wall thickness is uneven and thin not only that it falls right on the join to the edge of the bell where goes towards the trans.. I guess I'm trying to do the reverse of what Chuck (60 Dart) is doing where he's made a later bell fit an earlier block..

Here's the bellhousing (to block side)

Here's the back of the block

With a sheet of paper and some grubby fingers I made some excuse of a template

Here's one side

with the template lifted

Other Side

and what I need to secure to

What I might do is fit the bell housing to the block again and drill a small hole in the through the center of the block holes to see how close I am exactly to the wall of the bell. Fit the Torgue Converter also to see if I have room to maybe get a strengthening plate inside the bell..