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Great Baffling Bellhousings!!!

Discussion in 'Early CJ5 and CJ6 Tech' started by Howard Eisenhauer, Jan 8, 2006.

  1. Howard Eisenhauer

    Howard Eisenhauer Administrator Staff Member

    I've been tearing into Tonka's drivetrain this weekend & found a bit of a mystery:shock:

    The gray housing is offa Tonk, the rusty one is from Maggie-

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    Maggies looks like the one shown in the FSM, Tonk's looks decidedly different. Note the holes for the clutch fork & bosses for- well whatever the heck those bosses are for on both sides.

    Best idea I can come up with is Tonka's was designed with right hand drive in mind but maybe it was a speacial deal 'cause Tonk started out as a Zamboni. Anybody ever seen one of these before or have any clue on it?

    Thanks,

    H.
     
    Howard Eisenhauer, Jan 8, 2006
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  2. Old Bill

    Old Bill Aggressively passive....

    Can't tell you about Tonka, but Maggie's is 'xactly like Old Bill's. That is interesting though, I'd like to know what's up with that....
     
    Old Bill, Jan 8, 2006
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  3. gte636p

    gte636p Member

    huh...i'll throw out that none of mine (three total) have the vent on the bellhousing. both of those housings look new to me...
     
    gte636p, Jan 8, 2006
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  4. GreenKaiser

    GreenKaiser Flamed out again....

    I bought an engine out of an GPW a while back and it had one just like your gray housing. Remembered it because the place where the cable should come out looked like it was broken out in the casting process. Does yours have part number 649221 cast into the right side near the transmission mounting face?
     
    GreenKaiser, Jan 8, 2006
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  5. gte636p

    gte636p Member

    wait, scratch what i said...i thougt that pattern looked funny for a v6. the rust colored one matches the four cylinder housings i've played with.
     
    gte636p, Jan 8, 2006
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  6. Hippo393

    Hippo393 Jeepless

    Whew, I thought I was in the wrong forum. That bell looks nothing like the 225 V6...initially I thought it was a 198'er. :oops: Gotta state the engine in the post!
     
    Hippo393, Jan 9, 2006
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  7. M38a1diesel

    M38a1diesel Member

    I've got a bellhousing here that *supposedly* came out of an M38a1, and it's identical in appearance to the greasygrungy one on the left.
     
    M38a1diesel, Jan 9, 2006
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  8. Howard Eisenhauer

    Howard Eisenhauer Administrator Staff Member

    The mystery is solved- it seems the gray one is a waggy/truck piece.

    It appears how it got on there to begin with shall remain shrouded in the mists of time :(.


    Thanks all,


    H.
     
    Howard Eisenhauer, Jan 9, 2006
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  9. fourtrail

    fourtrail Built not Bought

    My 56 has the same bellhousing.
     
    fourtrail, Jan 9, 2006
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  10. Ppilotmike

    Ppilotmike old JEEPer

    I pulled a power train out of a 69 CJ6 that had a bellhousing like the gray one. Mike
     
    Ppilotmike, Jan 9, 2006
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  11. RedWing

    RedWing Member

    I have a 1971 with the v6 and from what I can recall the bellhousing resembles the gray one in your picture
     
    RedWing, Jan 9, 2006
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