T176 ford/jeep 4 speed to a chevy 350 cave man style....

[gildardo01]

on the other side of the border this transmission is widely use... most the the normal manual c10 chevy trucks have this transmission and they have a special bell housing... my 75 chevy c10 had an automatic and i decided to switch it to a manual transmission... i wanted to use the T176 because its lighter and has better gears than most transmission in this era... i bought the transmission for about 200 bucks in great condition... but i just couldnīt find the correct bell housing... all i found was the normal chevy type bell housing with the ears 5in apart (top to bottom) with a 5in bore.. for the tranny to fit i filed the top holes towards the inside about an 1/8 in... then for the bottom ears i welded and extra ear to the transmission and drilled a hole to be able to bolt up the transmission to the bottom of the bell housing... this can only be done to one side... i couldnīt do much to the other side so i just left it... here are some pics...
something i would have done different would be center the extra ear before welding it was a stupid mistake, i was lucky not to have drilled the hole any closer to the edge ,i have about a 1/4 of an inch before i ran out of space for the new hole... you can see it in the last picture...

[grayharville]

how did you center the trans in the bellhousing? any issues with the input shaft depth? what pilot bearing did you use? I have a cj5 with the t176 and am trying to swap in a sbc for little to no money. I have no problem drilling holes. Thanks

[gildardo01]

well for starters the bellhousing locator / throwout sleeve was the same bore size are the bell housing about 5 in I think...for the pilot bushing the standard pilot bushing that came with a LUK clutch kit with the 12in clutch disk for the 350 was the perfect size.. i found a good page with a lot of useful information, you might get some use out of it too... this is the link http://www.novak-adapt.com/catalog/kit_g176.htm
iīve been driving my pick up with no problems what so ever with this set up...