My "new" '74 Duster- or why I need a project like a hole in the head
I shortened the 71-74 B-body shifter by about 1.5". I just drilled new holes and cut the bottom of the stick off. The body plugs allow access to the electronic connections and my O2 sensor in the back and the ports for the hydraulic clutch at the front. There's one on the other side for that tight clearance bell to transmission bolt too, so everything is easy to access to drop the transmission.
This is the final arrangement for my hydraulic clutch lines. This took some trial and error, the first couple of iterations had interference issues. The throw out is from a C5 corvette, NOT a Viper like I had previously planned. And purchased. This is important, because the Viper and the T56 magnum do not have the same diameter input shaft. The Viper slave will slide over the input, but it DOES NOT have enough clearance. As in, less than the free play in the input. I narrowly avoided disaster on this one, and it did involve removing the transmission more than once. The C5 slave required a 1/2" and a .156" spacer to set the slave where I wanted it, which also changed the clearance on the lines. I have a remote bleeder installed as well, not gonna do that at the bellhousing. So this took a few days, involved a few different waits on AN lines and fittings with different angles, etc.
It still required some clearance on the quicktime bellhousing
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I shortened the 71-74 B-body shifter by about 1.5". I just drilled new holes and cut the bottom of the stick off. The body plugs allow access to the electronic connections and my O2 sensor in the back and the ports for the hydraulic clutch at the front. There's one on the other side for that tight clearance bell to transmission bolt too, so everything is easy to access to drop the transmission.
This is the final arrangement for my hydraulic clutch lines. This took some trial and error, the first couple of iterations had interference issues. The throw out is from a C5 corvette, NOT a Viper like I had previously planned. And purchased. This is important, because the Viper and the T56 magnum do not have the same diameter input shaft. The Viper slave will slide over the input, but it DOES NOT have enough clearance. As in, less than the free play in the input. I narrowly avoided disaster on this one, and it did involve removing the transmission more than once. The C5 slave required a 1/2" and a .156" spacer to set the slave where I wanted it, which also changed the clearance on the lines. I have a remote bleeder installed as well, not gonna do that at the bellhousing. So this took a few days, involved a few different waits on AN lines and fittings with different angles, etc.
It still required some clearance on the quicktime bellhousing
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