bell housing and clutch question

[midniteblues]

Originally Posted by chevycc1970

I don't know if you are aware or even looked but I doubt that your 400 has threads for the clutch pivot ball in the block where your bellcrank goes. I ran across this same problem with my 400. I drilled and tapped my own in the forward location. I saw that no one has posted anything about that so you may want to look beings from what research I had done about this 400 were not offered in many manual transmission configurations.Attachment 1543386

I was kinda nervous to drill and tap for the ball stud holes but it went fairly easy.
I used a gen correct oe sbc ball stud bracket to line it up the holes.
even though I only needed the one hole I still did both of them just because. Also had too drill and tap for the oe 71 wire loom brackets.
My 400 block had the bosses but no holes for any of them.

Your truck looks like some good quality work. Good job Keep it up.

No progress on the truck today.
Gotta get my tires mounted up so I figured I should service my old bishman tire machine.
ive had it for 5 yrs now and only used it.
it can use a good cleaning and lubing.


I want it working great before I mount my new ta's for the camaro.
So these bf at's and 8 lug accurides will be my test before I do the ta's.