WTD - Bellhousing, small block Chev to R151f Hilux

[Mud Camper]

LN 65 - Check
Body lift - Check
Big ass tyres - Check
350 Chevy - Check
R series box - Check
Bellhousing........ Doh!

If you've got one for sale, be glad to hear from you.

[muddyhilux]

on trade me.750 brand new.good product,ask me how i know ,i just got 1 the other week so i could upgrade my 350 from the g to r series box

[Mud Camper]

Cheers - saw them there. The photo shows them un-drilled. Is that how yours came?

[muddyhilux]

no its an old photo he keeps forgetting to change.they come all drilled except for the holes to suit the clutch slave cylinder.for myself that's easy enough but you might need someone to do it.also they need a flywheel cover plate made

[Mud Camper]

Cheers - good to know. At $750 he ain't giving them away though aye! Do they come with a clutch fork?

[muddyhilux]

na mate.just the housing ,thankfully ive already got all the rest of the bits but yeah.they're not exactly cheap.i tried selling my old 350 chev to g series a while back but couldn't even get 200

[Mud Camper]

Know what you mean - I've got one sitting on the bench too! Thanks for the steer on the TM ones being good quality. Will bear it in mind if I can't find a 2nd hand one. Cheers

[muddyhilux]

oh tru yeah good luck with finding one

[nzhunter]

na mate.just the housing ,thankfully ive already got all the rest of the bits but yeah.they're not exactly cheap.i tried selling my old 350 chev to g series a while back but couldn't even get 200

Have you still got your old bellhousing? Cheers

[Sadam_Husain]

Know what you mean - I've got one sitting on the bench too! Thanks for the steer on the TM ones being good quality. Will bear it in mind if I can't find a 2nd hand one. Cheers

can you get it redrilled for the R box or is it too big for it, we had a rover one redrilled for a W or G box for possums boy last year, dunno what the bellhousing was made for other than having rover to toyota on it and it was pretty full of holes and had bits welded onto it from different gearboxes that had been hanging off it but it fitted ok

[muddyhilux]

yeah g /w has smaller bolt pattern sadam so that why that worked out.r series the bolts are out on the casting edge if no a little further

[Mud Camper]

Muddy Hilux is dead right, the R series box is signifcantly wider in the front. The G series to chev bellhousing I have doesn't have enough meat in it to accept the R series.

[Dannz71]

Gday muddyhilux, where did you get your bell housing from?? do you still have the chaps contact details or a company name??
I have a graham berry bellhousing that used to pair up a 283 to a w series box and in the process of upgrading my lux just found out, as you guys have, that it don't fit an r series box....

I need ta get hold of a bell housing pretty asap and don't have time to wait for one to pop up
Please help
Cheers

[muddyhilux]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/chevrolet/gear-boxes/auction-588940862.htm

this is what i brought but does require mods to fit 14" flywheel

[Dannz71]

Cheers for that, big help, dunno y I cudn't find that last night.
when you say "modification needed" what exactly do ya mean?
a bit ov a tickle with the grinder?
a hell ov a lota grinding?
or full blown cut and weld modification??

cheers

[Trundle]

have you priced one through marks 4wd in auz

[Dannz71]

Yea 750 aussie dolla so that makes it alot closer to a grand, then add shipping probli a hundy or more then wen i pops thru customs our governmnt bangs on a big cuple hundrd dolla import tax like when i bought my gopro so plus the wait around, that options not so viable...

[muddyhilux]

Yea 750 aussie dolla so that makes it alot closer to a grand, then add shipping probli a hundy or more then wen i pops thru customs our governmnt bangs on a big cuple hundrd dolla import tax like when i bought my gopro so plus the wait around, that options not so viable...

i used a mill and die grinder to machine out quite a bit on both sides to clear the 14" flywheel.the walls not super thick to start with so i took my time removing ONLY what needed to be removed and no more.also needed die grinder treatment to get super starter to clear casting,slave holes drilled and tapped and flywheel cover plate made as well as drilled and tapped housing to attach to

[Dannz71]

cheers for that, yea went and got one, turns out I have the smaller flywheel so I only had ta drill and tap the side for the slave cyl, and fab up a bottom cover, so sorted all of that, however run into a new problem with my engine having a bit of an abortion.

[Dannz71]

Gday muddyhilux do ya know how to get hold of the guy that sold those bell housings? Cant find him on trade me and needa talk to him.
Cheers

[muddyhilux]

morrie9 or his business is a1 turbos located in auckland.google wont load his web page to get number right now but it shoes his site

[Dannz71]

Gday. What slave and master cylinders did you guys use?
Cheers

[Pico42]

Yea 750 aussie dolla so that makes it alot closer to a grand, then add shipping probli a hundy or more then wen i pops thru customs our governmnt bangs on a big cuple hundrd dolla import tax like when i bought my gopro so plus the wait around, that options not so viable...

Exchange rates puts $AU750 at about $NZ810 at the moment.
Then shipping
Then GST & Customs fees - but there is no Import Duty on car parts (unlike cameras).

How heavy is it?

[Dannz71]

Yea 750 aussie dolla so that makes it alot closer to a grand, then add shipping probli a hundy or more then wen i pops thru customs our governmnt bangs on a big cuple hundrd dolla import tax like when i bought my gopro so plus the wait around, that options not so viable...

Exchange rates puts $AU750 at about $NZ810 at the moment.
Then shipping
Then GST & Customs fees - but there is no Import Duty on car parts (unlike cameras).

How heavy is it?

Oh maybe a couple kilos, but thats all sorted sourced one locally for nz$750 as above^

trying to find out what clutch cylinders people have used with this bellhousing