A500 42RH Crossmember template?

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Transmission tunnel will always need to be clearanced because otherwise the transmission, and engine (!) with everything connected, will be pointing down at the rear at a larger angle.
 
I just modified the factory crossmember when I did mine, just used the two outer bolts and reinforced the floor above it after I cut out the whatever hit the trans. Didn’t need to do anything with the floor pan on my 68
 
Yes.
But also the 'bolt-ears' at the flange between trans and OD-unit will hit the tunnel's sheetmetal.
Clearancing that is greatly advised.
 
The original crossmember was stamped sheetmetal.
While the OD-transmission is a but heavier than a 904 or 727, the crossmember above looks like something designed to hold 20.000 lbs of weight...
It also seems to extend and hang real low under the car.
 

Looks really great. A guy who just started working at the company I work for has a plasma cam setup. Said he could cut out the pieces for me. He said the pix for the cutter to use had to be formatted a certain way. He gave me a couple different 3 letter formats that his plasma cam could use. Which one is your drawings in ?? What thickness steel did you make this out of. I have a sheet of 3/16" steel I planned on using.
 
Looks really great. A guy who just started working at the company I work for has a plasma cam setup. Said he could cut out the pieces for me. He said the pix for the cutter to use had to be formatted a certain way. He gave me a couple different 3 letter formats that his plasma cam could use. Which one is your drawings in ?? What thickness steel did you make this out of. I have a sheet of 3/16" steel I planned on using.

Dwg or dxf
 
The spool mount was a lot easier to modify, but it does extend a little lower than the biscuit type.
The only place in the floor I had to mod was the hump brace and a 1inch round by .5 inch deep dent in the floor where the fitting off the governor port is for the pressure switch's line fitting.
Inside the car that dent is a very small hump between the seats. (not noticeable at all under the carpet even if you know where it is)

crossmember.jpg
 
do you have any installed pics?

No I don't, sorry.
Taking pics wasn't a priority during getting my daily driver back up and running.
I might be able to do that when I swap rear ends though.
 
Following.
Mine will be for an early A body.

The early A will be different than the 67-later since the upper crossmember is not as wide as the later cars which means the lower trans support is also not as wide. Here is the start of a modified upper crossmember I’m working on for my 65

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