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RE: Belhousing for Buick 215

To: "'Jeffrey J. Barteet'" <barteet@nceas.ucsb.edu>
Subject: RE: Belhousing for Buick 215
From: "James R Bown" <Bowan@uswest.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:34:48 -0600
As previously noted by Jim Stuart the answer is yes.

His comment about getting a 4-speed bell housing is important.
The three speed bell housing will not work!
Although, as he noted, you will find some combination 3-speed 4-speed
housings that will work.

Please also note:
The original 215 manual boxes used a 10 spline input shaft.
As such the original clutch disks had 10 spline hubs.
Many newer boxes (be they T5's, newer T10's, or whatever) will use a finer
spline input shaft.
This is no problem.
You just need to get a clutch disk with a hub to match your transmission.
Any clutch rebuilder should be able to help you out with that.

-----Original Message-----
From:   owner-buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jeffrey J. Barteet
Sent:   Thursday, August 10, 2000 5:03 PM
To:     buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net
Subject:        Belhousing for Buick 215

Hi, Folks,

I've been looking into gearbox setups for buick 215s.

Is it true that you can take the belhousing off a manual transmission buick
\ olds 215 and bolt it up to a 'modern' T 5 gearbox?

Is anybody out there doing this?

Thanks in advance.

-jeffrey


Jeffrey J. Barteet, System Administrator
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
735 State St., Santa Barbara, CA
barteet@nceas.ucsb.edu  805.892.2508



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