building a doubler can suck me balls

blacksheep10 · May 31, 2007

okay, wish I had pics of what I am going through here, heath has my camera, but here is the gist of it. a 231 doubler is a great idea for the money. it goes with a circle 6 case. problem is I need chevy side. now, doing measurements on my ford case I came up with not enough spline engagement anyway, so I had to ditch the clocking plate to do ford side. worse than that, my chebby case is figure 8. I had to ditch the whole rear plate that caps off the 231 and make a thinner one out of steel. then I took a figure 8 plate I had to make a doubler out of (203 doubler) and am welding it to the steel 231 plate I made and drilled. alignment adn clocking are a fun issue. I don't think I have any fawking floorboard left at this point. now I have these 2 steel plates that look like swiss cheese welded together and have to cap off the front of the 205 shift rail hole because it hits the 231. I have welded a little piece of steel to the 231 plate to cap off the hole and am going to silicone it shut. after that I have sharpened the end of a shift rail to 2 points like and end mill and am running it through the shift rail path to mark the back of the output housing for the spot to drill the hole and put the seal. I am going ghetto and jb welding the seal that I take out of the front to the output housing and siliconing the **** out of it. then I am going to join 2 shift rails together to get enough length out the back of the case. I will then cut the original rail off at the front to make sure it will travel forward into high without hitting the block off plate and cut teh rear of the extended part off to the desired length. in all reality it isn't too bad, just a lot of test fitting, thinking and drilling. I actually think it is fun, I like doing this kind of ****, but it is time consuming as hell and that is what eats me up. I want to be working on other ****

blacksheep10 · May 31, 2007

okay, heath brought the camera by with his long ass "compensation" trailer so I will have pic shortly.

6uldv8 · May 31, 2007

You are without a doubt the craziest mofo I've ever met! Keep up the good work! ;D

blacksheep10 · May 31, 2007

you haven't seen me wheel yet

blacksheep10 · May 31, 2007

okay, lunch time so pic time

here is the chebby case with the 31 spline input out of a ford in it and the monster 1480 front joint adapter plate on it.

here are the 2 adapter plates that hold the 2 cases together and seal the fluid from leaking out. since a chevy case doesn't have a seal reatiner on the front of it like 300's and ford 205's and later chebby ones ('85 and up), the cases are going to swap spit. the shaft center line is the same in both of them, but the problem is when it is standing on its back all the time the 205 might get overfull from the 231 and then leak it out and not give it back. plates

here is the old shift rail with 2 points ground into it to mark the hole location

then here is the rear output housing drilled and hole beveled for the o ring I decided to use to seal it up.

here is the 0 ring in place

also here is the new shift rail I built out of a stock front rail cut down and the stock rear rail with the front cut off so it doesn't protrude out the front of the case. the one not in the vise is a stock rear rail (the one you mod for twin stick.)

going to eat and get back to it. I hope to be done by 4 when I go get all counseled up

blacksheep10 · May 31, 2007

on second thought maybe I should have taken a few more pics and posted this in the tech section

blacksheep10 · May 31, 2007

all right, twin stick is done, range box bolted back in, plate on 205, hole drilled and tapped in top of 205 to put fluid in from the cab, ready to bolt that **** in. I think I'm gonna run braces from the 205 plate to the 350/231 plate to stiffen up that aluminum case, then run slightly modified factory rods (the ones that go from a bellhousing bolt to the side of teh tcase) from a bellhousing bolt on each side to the 231/th350 plate.

bigsilly · May 31, 2007

I love your Tech threads Kelly when you get to talking to yourself. ;D

blacksheep10 · May 31, 2007

I know, there is no one else that pops in and asks questions or any of that, I just keep posting now knowing if anyone is following. Then I am nervous that noone cares so I start talking to myself

blacksheep10 · Jun 1, 2007

its in, was going to do crossmembers today and wheels, but trav came over with his loader and we put all the engines up on the mezzanine and cleaned all the trash out of the expansion area, just need to compact and fill, then put the 60 tons of screening down so we are ready for concrete 8)

InDaShop · Jun 1, 2007

Thats awesome. Travs good help! Bet that place is lookign clean! Well cleaner.

I notriced with my dad, that no matter how clean an organized I get the shop. He sees open space and then fills it with ****.
We just got the t-bucket out of the shop, and what did he say to me on the phone on the way back from Clayton....."Hey, I was over at a buddies, and he had this really nice set of workbenches." Seriously we have more workbench space than any shop needs, and then some. So the moral is, watch that Merle.