Ax-15 to A833 swap

If you need a Mopar 4-speed, I have several to chose from, but I'm not selling them cheap. Well they might be cheaper because of the exchange rate. But IDK about tariffs
It's not the power that will break it unless you drop the clutch at 5000, lol.
It'll be the torque, which is something that factory 340s never really had a lot of.
plus on the street, with street tires, first gear is not likely to break, Second maybe, but you'll have to be mean to it

My 367 kept tearing up the clutches, so what I did was,
1) my Diaphragm clutch had flyweights , that fly out with rop, which increases the clamping force. so
2) I reduced the static clamping so that it slipped at low rpm, just a little. No more clutch failures.
3) I did this by installing shims under each of the six retaining bolts , adjusting the thickness until I got what I wanted.
4) Now, I can almost dump the clutch and drive away, with a 10.97 starter gear. If I give it a little blip first, away it goes.


As for your hydraulic clutch, You only need about .100 TOTAL throw-out bearing travel, which includes about .080 for departure, and .020 for bearing retraction off the fingers.
Idk how much that would be at the fork.
If you don't have enough, and master is parking properly at the beginning of it's stroke, the question then is, is the master using ALL of it's available stroke.
If no, then why not.
If yes, then MAYBE, you'll need a longer-travel master. This will depend on if the slave has enough travel.

Before you buy anything, Make sure your Master is retracting all the way. This is to ensure the thing compensates for slave travel, as the clutch disc loses thickness ,due to wear.
If it doesn't compensate, the pedal will fall over time, and the slave will lose travel.
Wow, you are a wealth of knowledge. All of this sounds so far beyond me, I have zero experience with anything related to transmissions. I was honestly going to pay a shop to figure it out, but found a deal on a 340 engine and rebuild A833 so I bought both. I checked the gear ratio the way you described and came up with 3.55 for the rear gear.

As for the reverse gear, it takes moderate to firm pressure on the shifter to hold it in gear when I back up. Not too worried about it, since I think it’ll be coming out anyways; I plan on building the 340 to have a good bit more hp and tq than factory.

Do you have any general advice or thoughts on a manual clutch vs hydraulic? I’ll most likely just go with manual for the a833 since that’s what it came with from the factory and my pedals are already set up for it, but if you have any thoughts I’d love to hear. Thank you