Bellhousing Breakage

[Jody Lang]

Do you have solid body mounts or does your roll bar limit the amount of frame flex on your car?

When you jack up the front of your car where do you put the jack stands?

Even with rubber mounts they only have so much give.

[Jim Kaekel]

Jody: I have stock rubber mounts on the motor and trans. I place a pair of jackstands on the front frame rails and a pair under the rear axle when I jack it up to change trans., etc. It has an H&R Parts 'n' Stuff anti-roll bar in the rear which stiffened up the car quite a bit. For example, if you jack up the left front under the lower control arm, a little bit after the left front wheel is off the ground, the right front comes off shortly after. Prior to the installation of the anti-roll bar, the left front, for example, would have to be way off the ground before the right front tire would raise off the ground, so the anti-roll bar definitely stiffened up the chassis. PS- Tell Toby I said "Hi"

[dennis dunlap]

Jim ,We had tranny case problems when we brought out the chevelle travis races,broke one on the chassis dyno, got to asking around and another racer with a similer combination suggested leaving the bolts on the cross member with a little bit of movement room between the cross member and tranny mount .... worked for us !! Kenny shawver makes a neat brace for the turbo 350 also . Dennis Rocketworks racecars

[glen myers]

Buy Shawver's brace it solved my problems after 3 broken cases in the 71 455 lo compression F/SA car after going from TH400 to TH350