Adapting a T5 Transmission to a Closed Driveshaft | Homemade Boat-tail Speedster Pt. 50
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The T5 transmission is a popular choice among many hot rod builders as a significant upgrade over old original 3 speed transmissions. Typically, upgrading to the newer transmission means also converting the rear end to an open driveshaft since most old hot rods had closed driveshafts, but there's a way to receive the benefits of a newer transmission while still keeping the original closed driveshaft. In this video I show how I designed and built an adapter assembly to attach an early Ford closed driveshaft to a Chevy T5 4x4 transmission.
Resources (drawings, CAD file, Parts list):
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Vintage Metalworks (U-joint yoke source): vintagemetalwor...
Your skills are way beyond your age. Gives me hope that these skills will be kept alive by folks like you. FANTASTIC work!
It’d be nice if he’d open his own machine shop in the future! I’d definitely go to him.
Your abilities never cease to amaze me. Stay in school, get your engineering degree, you will never regret it. It was the hardest and best thing I ever did.
Speaking as a former Tool Maker for over 40 years, you did a beautiful job on that adapter!
Great job and bravo on designing and machining your adapter Plate !!! Just a couple of kindly provided comments ~ Rule Number 1: "No sharp/knife edges ... anywhere" ... causes stress cracks ... sand/rotary file all edges including your counter bores which I couldn't tell if your cutter gave a beveled (radius) edge but should be. Next are Bushings ... next time, throw them in your Freezer for an hour or so, apply a lube and you'll be able to press them in with your thumbs. Thanks for your video ... and spending your Summer Vaca providing us with such great content ... she's gonna be so beautiful when you're done !!!
sweet, looking forward to seeing the torque tube and driveshaft mods.
I love the engineering drawings and your attention to detail. Most engrs can only make a drawing, not build the part.
You are incredibly gifted in knowledge and skill. I am awe-struck by your achievements. Good on you, young man.
Very nice design and actual production of teh part(s). That self satisfaction is always the reward when you design and build your ideas. Thumbs Up for sure...
My son is a Senior Staff Mechanical engineer in Drive Systems at Tesla. I sent him a link to your channel. I think he needs to hire you when you get out of school!
That's awesome! Let him know I'm interested!
Good start to my Friday!
You did phenomenal!! Excellent camera work, great explanations and really made it doable for me. I wish to say thank you ever so much.... just all in the approach!
I always use bit of heat when installing bearings into aluminium housings, the difference in thermal expansion makes them go in far easier.
Can't wait to see the whole drive train assembled. Brilliant work as always!
Great work....Reminds me of my days in a machine shop as a teenager-summer-job and did remedial stuff, I really enjoyed watching a chunk of metal turn into a machined part. I'm looking forward to seeing the engine installed, and running.
It’s so cool to see how your building this car, every aspect of it being touched. As a mechanic, we always build things really simple when we customize things cause we look at it as a way to make things simple to work on. What makes you unique is you are building this car like an engineer, but not just any engineer, the engineer that has to work on it. You are a genius sir!
This is your brain, this is your brain NOT on drugs. So worth the wait for every one of your videos. Keep rockin it dude!! Vacation?
Re fire tongues - necessity is the mother of all inventions...
Keep going!
I love watching you work, very helpful to those of us who would like to do this. That part looks primo !
That is a gorgeous piece, you really didn't need to finish it so nicely - but I'm glad you did.
Well done young sir . Something you might want to try when drilling , cutting and taping aluminum is door ease . You can pick it up at any NAPA store . We do a lot of aluminum fab where I work and it stays put without making the mess of a liquid .
WoW, never thought about using an end mill bit on my boring bar, way more rigid than a spindly Chinese bar on my Chinese lathe! I love manual machining, my feet hurt I do it for so long.
That piece is a thing of beauty. Top work!
Small suggestion: get the trans-to-transfer case gasket. Otherwise, I love this Ford ball end adaptor.
It won't be long. Way to go, enjoy it all very much. Thanks
Another great video - I'm enjoying the progress and look forward to seeing the first drive! I'll pass along one tip that's saved a lot of grief on my boat. When steel and aluminum are in contact, use "Tef-gel" paste to prevent corrosion and galling. In a salty environment the parts will weld themselves together. May be overkill for an automotive application, but it can't hurt. :-)
Stunning. For one so young.
Amazing work, yet again! Everyone needs to share these videos and hastag them. Let's get this kid a million subs! #MetalWork #Fabricating #Machinist #design #3dModel #hotrod #lathe #SolidWorks #Milling
I'm glad you decided to make it out of metal instead of wood, lol. Seriously, nice project!
Awesome job as usual, congratulations from France !
Another great video. I hope you are taking Engineering in University . You can teach the profs things. Who says mixing manufacturers parts do not match up. With your ingenuity you will go along way in the engineering world. Keep up the great work.
I'd assumed you would go with the open drive shaft rear end you had ... but I guess that was not challenging enough. :-) Enjoyed watching!
OK. Found your channel on your future videos, thought I would follow this project from the beginning, glad I did. Very nice machine work, pairs well with your welding skills.
Unstoppable! Tongs, indeed! They had those "back in the day" too! FR
NICE fab work, bro. Way to go taking your time, measuring twice and all that. Great looking part in the end
That’s a work of art
A shame you wouldn't see a Ford type 9 gearbox over in the US as it is in Europe and some other countries just about the "go to" gearbox for any modded RWD build, think the only cars in the US that had it were the Merkur XR4Ti and Scorpio, the beauty of the type 9 is it can accept just about any Ford engine and has a reasonable output making prop design a breeze. Indeed a special police van using the Ford Transit had a type 9 box and a Jaguar XJS rear axle modified to fit the Ford Transit mounts and a 3.0 Essex V6 up front made for a scary fast van.
i think you can make the splice with youre current tools (think you had a dividing head) , it will just take a LOT of time as you have to hand cut every single spline groove under the mill (using the up and down motion and a custom ground cutter)
put a hydraulic press on youre want list , with pressing bearings in and out and stuff like that its a great tool to have , could make youre own with a hydraulic jack and some steel
i have a 20 ton version and i couldnt live without it anymore
I’ve missed your last few videos. I thought that just my notifications were shut off but my subscription was shut off. I don’t understand how or why UA-cam does that!
Great video. Reminded me of one I did for my old Ford. I ended up cutting the spline off the t-5 output shaft and welded it to the yoke from the Ford. I used blocks of aluminum As you did.. Your machining was much more elegant, as I didn’t have access to a Lathe. Great work!
Every single episode i'm just sitting here in awe, watching how insane you are at building things pretty much from scratch
Me, looking at my grenaded motorcycle, thinking I wish I could build things half as sick as you do
you just have to get out there and do it and not be afraid of messing up! That's how I learned everything you see in the videos
Very fun thanks to watch your vlogs.
always a joy to watch your talented work.
Thanks a million for the drawings!
Helps a lot!
You're very welcome!
Great content as always dude. Just one thing just so you know the audio is kinda funky on this video
You are brilliant Vince! Keep Going...we are here!!
Excellent job. I just completed something along the same lines but did not have the advantage of the readily available output flange. Your finished job looks very professional considering it was all carried out on a home user type lathe. Subbed ya. All the best, Mart in England.
Another Technique for Inserting Bearings into Aluminium Housings is to put the Bearing in a food bag, Place in Deep Freeze for 1 Hour.
Place Aluminium Housing in the Oven, 1/2 Hour,
The Bearing will Just Drop into the Housing 😊
This was perfect timing, I was just thinking about this last week! 👌👍
As young as you are,and smart,talented please tell me your going to MIT or another fine academic.always impressive.keep doing what your doing,can’t wait for final assembly.😎😎😎👍👍👍
Prop-shaft... :)
Cool video, makes me want to go build something!
Also, I can confirm that Chevy used a closed style up to 1954. 1955 they went open.
nice work its a credit to you kind regards cs nsw Australia
fabulous work - great skills
For putting in such bearings, I've seen where they super-cool them down with dry ice to shrink them, thus reducing the pressing force & alignment problems.
Your Amazing, Great video.
What a great job of design and fabrication. Really enjoying your channel!
Very clever how you used an end mill as a boring bar.
Nice explanation on everything. You are right machining sure can be alot of fun.
Nice work - I couldn't see how big the drift was you were using to hammer in the bearing but try to use something large enough that the pressure is only on the outer race and you're not hammering on the inner race and balls.
Agreed. Scrolled down to see if I was the only one objecting.
Fricken love your videos man.
you know as a machinist i would have never thought to use an endmill as a boring bar and cutter
Really nice work.
Very nice indeed. Just like always.
16:09 made me chuckle
That plate is a beautiful piece of sculpture. The smooth chamfer should eliminate any stress concetration that a stepped design would cause. (Not that it's very likely to matter.)
Using an off-the-shelf product that would be tricky to make is a sensible production choice. (Thinks: How DO you machine spline slots on the inside of a tube?)
The snap-ring pliers were a brilliant hack.
How is that bearing going to be lubricated? Packed with grease before it's all bolted together? I don't see any source of oil for it otherwise.
Nice machining.
Just AMAZING! Great job Sir!
Nice looking precision component.
Very nice.
Looking forward to more videos.
Great work!
You are going so well with this project. On your next upload maybe you can give us an estimate time to completion.
Would be great.
Nicely done
Nails on the tongs…. Great idea.
Great job!
What a cool project
Yes, thank you for posting this information. I have a similar dilemma in that GM actually shipped a WC T5 in the '94-'95 S10, they used the improved Ford re-design I'm told. It has a Ford bolt patter on the bell housing side. There is a guy that sells an adapter, and I think he's going to make it...but it's taking some time and it got me to thinking that in theory, if I take the template I made from the T5 that has the Ford bolt pattern which has the shape and holes for template, I could overlay another template from my transmission and see what I need for shape and location of holes to build a plate of my own. Countersink the flathead bolts with hex head holding it to my bell housing, and threads for the bolts of my T5 with Ford bolt pattern. Isn't that how you would line up the 2 patterns? In your case your going vintage Ford pattern to GM T5 bolt pattern. Did you use an S10 T5? (shifter forward)
neat work
very enjoyable episode
Awesome work as always! 👍
Impressive work!
Very nice!
Excellent...
Beautiful job, thanks.
Awesome work again!
Thanks!
Expertly done.
Great job! Thanks for sharing!
jay leno must see this
All good!!
some Sprint Cars still use torque tube driveshafts to this day.
Nice job! Apparently there is no need for a seal on the T5 output shaft?
sick work. don't forget to take a sip of water
Awesome!
Thanks a bunch for the drawings! Can you pass on where you purchased the U-joint end of it and what the bearing part number is? I really like this setup - exactly what I'm going to put into my 34 Ford. I'll probably swap out the gearset to a close-ratio one (as the 4x4 stuff has an almost unusable 1st). Thanks again!
sure. I just added a link in the video description to Vintage Metalworks. The bearing and snap rings are from McMaster-Carr and their part numbers are on one of the drawings in the google drive link
The one problem I think i see is using 4wd T5 is now you have put torque tube adapter on there is no oil for spline so the flange needs to be prelubricated with a molybdenum based lubricant and there probably should be some sort of seal to keep it there between shaft and flange splines ?
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How does the joint attach to the holder? I didn't see any holes for screws.
Sweet as
Why don't you need a seal between the bearing and the yoke, or is there no oil lube there and the seal is further on the shaft toward the transmission? Oh, never mind. I saw on the next video of how the torque tube sealed everything. Genius.
Nice job!
Thanks!
Does the differential oil go into the drive shaft tube to the ball and socket pivot . Love the progress .
I am really surprised to see that you don't have a hydraulic press.