4 speed bell housing help

[Dinobach]

Hi all,

I'm hoping somebody could give me some advice about the bellhousing that was with my car when I bought it.

The car was originally an auto and I bought it in bits with a 4 speed, pedals and a bare 440.  I have no idea what the bellhousing could be off but the issue I think I've going to have is where the Z-bar will mount on it.

All the setups I've seen have a bracket above the starter but this one hasn't.  It also has a badly cut extra hole on the side which baffles me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and might stop me selling the sodding thing  

[70 sublime]

Looks like the same parts I am trying to sort out 

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,135832.0.html

[metallicareload99]

Looks like a Lakewood bellhousing that someone cut another hole in, maybe to adjust the clutch?  Is that main case on the transmission aluminum? Appears to be a non overdrive gear set in there.  What are your plans with the car?  Depending on what you wanna do and your fabrication skills this particular bell housing might be problematic.  The extra hole could give you problems if you want to race it and how fast you want to go.  One could add the missing Z-bar/torque shaft bracket but I bet it would be a bit of work.  Otherwise run some type of hydraulic release bearing?  Welcome!

[alfaitalia]

Looking as a few clues in your garage and your use of the word "sodding"!.... Im guessing you are in the UK....where are you roughly and got any pics of your car?

EDIT....just seen your email address ...so you are in the UK!

....and congrats on being able to post pics directly....ive been here 4 years ( and many others far longer!)and still have to use a photo host as I STILL cant get it to work!!!

[Dinobach]

Looks like the same parts I am trying to sort out 

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,135832.0.html

They do look similar but the bracket you have for the Z bar to attach to isn't on mine.  That's the problem I have. 

[Dinobach]

Looks like a Lakewood bellhousing that someone cut another hole in, maybe to adjust the clutch?  Is that main case on the transmission aluminum? Appears to be a non overdrive gear set in there.  What are your plans with the car?  Depending on what you wanna do and your fabrication skills this particular bell housing might be problematic.  The extra hole could give you problems if you want to race it and how fast you want to go.  One could add the missing Z-bar/torque shaft bracket but I bet it would be a bit of work.  Otherwise run some type of hydraulic release bearing?  Welcome!

Thanks Metallica 
My fabrication skills = zero!  So this could be a big issue.  I don't intend to race the car hard (if I ever get it finished) but it's got a fuel injected 512 which I hope to thrash around one day.

I believe the main case to be aluminium but no idea about the gear set, how could you tell they are "non overdrive"? 

Cheers,

Dean.

[c00nhunterjoe]

Looks like a lakewood that was modified to run a cable or hydraulic setup. Worthless unless you do the same or worse, dont have the motor plate that goes with it.

[70 sublime]

If you look at my thread and the transmission that is pictured in the back of a half ton truck
Look at the gear shifter parts that come out of the side of the transmission
The little levers that the shifter rods connect to
My front lever hangs down and the others hang up
Yours all hang up
When they made the over drive set up they just left fourth gear in the case alone as it was direct drive and made gear number 3 into the over drive gear so they just flipped this small lever over so shifting into 3rd and fourth just got reversed inside the transmission if that makes sense to you

So yours looks like it is just plain 4 speed without over drive by looking at the levers

[Dinobach]

Thanks for all the info guys, really helpful.  Just wish I'd asked a couple of years ago when I had my reservations.

I bought the car many years ago and it's always been on the back burner.....marriage, kids, houses, jobs, meant the car was down the pecking order so before we moved we fitted the motor and trans then put the Charger into storage.
Now things have settled down I'm able to start looking at the car again.  My serious lack of knowledge and being based in the UK is not helping.   

[Dinobach]

Looking as a few clues in your garage and your use of the word "sodding"!.... Im guessing you are in the UK....where are you roughly and got any pics of your car?

EDIT....just seen your email address ...so you are in the UK!

....and congrats on being able to post pics directly....ive been here 4 years ( and many others far longer!)and still have to use a photo host as I STILL cant get it to work!!!

Thanks Alfa,

I am in the UK, Cardiff to be exact.    Had the car a long time, bought it in bits and over the years have accumulated most of the parts to finish it (I think) just need the knowledge and time now.

There's a thread about resizing pics on here, sends you to a link to download a small program.  It only takes a few seconds.
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,80380.0.html

Here's a pic of mine anyway. 

[alfaitalia]

Cool...not a million miles away as I'm in the South Coast .....was up that way recently.....might see you around when mines rolling. Coincidently I'm also Dean! Good luck with your transmission.