I started tearing into it. Found alot wrong with it, only one loose bolt on the starter, so the starter was hanging about 1/2 inch down, positive cable was zip tied to the terminal, all bell housing bolts were loose and the one that was tight had the head broken off, both output flange bolts backed off, no lube in either the case or transmission, input shaft bearing totally exploded in half and the gears stripped. Battery tray totally corroded and bent, an inch of gunk build up all over everything, And the truck is a mess.









Gonna keep cranking away, its going to be a pretty sweet truck eventually...

 

Sweet! I was wondering as I logged in if you'd had time to make any progress!

 

Well, i found the w56 that i had stuffed in the corner of the shop, so i drug that out, picked up another top shift case for 50 bucks, got a tg doubler adapter for about 200 dollars, found a nice radiator in my stash of parts.... things are coming along!

Nasty radiator


Nice radiator that i hope will fit.


W56 and two cases


Ripped apart the case


Pile-o-junk


Completed reduction box with adapter



Found out that the case i picked up is a early case with the over sized input, so i have to grind down some of the splines. Supposedly slightly stronger than a typical 21 spliner.


This is a true budget build!

 

Not bad for free. There are a few tailgates out there, but the single latch ones are harder to find. Looks like the truck was a SR5 version with the chrome package.

 

Yeah, I've been looking for a single latch tailgate for quite awhile. Hard to come by, especially in the rust belt.

 

So i ripped the motor out to build a 20r/22r hybrid



to be greeted with:





GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

how in the.....

 

I don't know... it still ran... no weird noises either. Its huge and like 1mm off on the oil pan surface.

 

wtf......?

How is this even possible lol...

 

You cant beat free.
Im really interested in how this is going to turn out. Good work.

 

True low cost beater?

Weld it and use lots of RTV on the pan

 

I dunno if i can weld it, i got NI rod and im good at welding cast, but the only thing holding this chunk of engine block on is the seal retainer.....

 

7018 Works good for cast aswell...but if you have the nickle rods, use um fer sure.

Good enough for a beater

Just think, the trans will hold it together as well haha

 

i wouldnt mind the cops pushing something like that into my shop

 

you can always tack it in place with superglue or jb weld. Then weld it.

Lucky for you it's not a pressure bearing part, but there is no way I see this happening on a DD. I have seen it happen to a drag car or two though. One the block the other the trans housing.

This is one reason of the many reasons to run a scatter shield. But not necc on a DD or a wheeler. I don't even think they even make one for any 22r transmissions.

Only thing I can think of is someone either had the motor or trans out at one point and did not have it fully lined up when torquing down the trans housing bolts.

P.S. Was the support brackets on the bottom of that block on both sides?

 

Nice progress!

 

blocks are a dime a dozen .. just replace it ..


curious as to how it happened ? ..
I had a 20R desintigrate a tranny mount boss on me ... just turned to powder !!!
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Same thing happened to a friends block from broken engine mounts. I think he JB welded it at the time.

 

well, i unbolted the seal housing and it just fell off...




Its been broken a long, long, long time. They replaced all the seals and gaskets on this engine but couldn't stop the oil from gushing out.. the body is all kinda rusted out, but everything under the car is spotless and new looking from all the oil.

 

I wouldnt JB weld that !!



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