A-man930 Posted March 21, 2018 Posted March 21, 2018 Interested if anyone has a spare or leftover internal slave AX-15 bellhousing lying around they'd like to part ways with, loan out, or donate. Looking into making my own engine adapter and want to avoid removing my trans just for dimensions... worth a shot!
carnuck Posted March 21, 2018 Posted March 21, 2018 Interested if anyone has a spare or leftover internal slave AX-15 bellhousing lying around they'd like to part ways with, loan out, or donate. Looking into making my own engine adapter and want to avoid removing my trans just for dimensions... worth a shot! Is It AX15 specific?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A-man930 Posted March 21, 2018 Author Posted March 21, 2018 3 hours ago, carnuck said: Is It AX15 specific? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk The adapter I'm wanting to make? No not really I suppose, It'll be making the rear of the TDi mimic the rear of a 4.0. I just had a 16" diameter piece of 6061 land in my lap yesterday and I want to know if it's big enough for the actual outside dimensions of the bell.
A-man930 Posted March 22, 2018 Author Posted March 22, 2018 Multiple sources have stated that the 4.0 bellhousing bolt pattern is identical to all AMC V8s; if that is indeed true I used these images to do a quick n dirty check: This is the piece I scored and the quick tape measure markings I made from the two above drawings: (I did not make the existing holes) If you can't tell from the picture, the bolts themselves will be very near the edge of this plate... my gut says its just barely too small, but I just HAVE to know for sure!
A-man930 Posted March 22, 2018 Author Posted March 22, 2018 Although I have not personally verified, this is the TDi side of things:
carnuck Posted March 22, 2018 Posted March 22, 2018 The tdi might use the same pattern as the VW/Audi 2.0L with 904 Auto trans in Postal Jeep DJ5-Gs in 78/79. Only the Gen 1 AMC V8s (250, 287, 327) had a different bell pattern than 4.0 and ‘72+ 232/258 in-line sixes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A-man930 Posted March 22, 2018 Author Posted March 22, 2018 5 hours ago, carnuck said: The tdi might use the same pattern as the VW/Audi 2.0L with 904 Auto trans in Postal Jeep DJ5-Gs in 78/79. Only the Gen 1 AMC V8s (250, 287, 327) had a different bell pattern than 4.0 and ‘72+ 232/258 in-line sixes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Boy that sounds like an impossibly hard to find combination of parts even if it does happen to share a pattern... plus I would need there to be manual trans. parts. I have heard the same with the 72+ AMC engines several times now.
carnuck Posted March 22, 2018 Posted March 22, 2018 Boy that sounds like an impossibly hard to find combination of parts even if it does happen to share a pattern... plus I would need there to be manual trans. parts. I have heard the same with the 72+ AMC engines several times now. It’s also the same as the 2.0 in 77-79 gremlin/Spirit which came with SR/4? SR/5? And turbo 924 Porsche 79/81. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A-man930 Posted March 23, 2018 Author Posted March 23, 2018 2 hours ago, carnuck said: It’s also the same as the 2.0 in 77-79 gremlin/Spirit which came with SR/4? SR/5? And turbo 924 Porsche 79/81. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Some quick research on that Audi 2.0 (known as the EA831) indicates that it does not share the bolt pattern of the EA827 (which I think is what even the current TDi engines are based upon).
A-man930 Posted March 28, 2018 Author Posted March 28, 2018 The piece I had was just big enough to fit the bolt pattern (16" dia) but not enough to give the bell much of anything to actually be drawn up against. Your pictures showed the outside of the bellhousing is 17.5" to 18" in diameter. So close!
carnuck Posted April 2, 2018 Posted April 2, 2018 The piece I had was just big enough to fit the bolt pattern (16" dia) but not enough to give the bell much of anything to actually be drawn up against. Your pictures showed the outside of the bellhousing is 17.5" to 18" in diameter. So close! I’d be tempted to split the plate and swing it open like an accordion style fan. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
TheDude Posted April 8, 2018 Posted April 8, 2018 I have a spare bellhousing from converting the truck to external slave last summer if you're still looking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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