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T-case torque mount

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Has anyone ever fabricated one to fit on a truck that never had one from the factory? I'm talking about the mount w/bushing that goes between the transfer case and the frame rail beside it, using the same two holes on the t-case that the torque rod to the bellhousing attaches. I know some of these trucks had them from the factory, I just don't know which. :dunno:

I have a couple beat up, but usable bushings/sleeves for 9/16's bolts and tube to fit them. Would be very simple to build my own torque mount. I have a few ideas/plans kickin around in my head with the bag of cats that lives in there. Just interested in more ideas and pictures, if ya gottem. :)
 
205, right?
I actually did build the one that is on my Ford. Fords came with those supports, but mine was too new. They had discontinued using 205s, and had used the support holes for a high pressure fuel pump.

I have written up how I did it a couple of times here, let me see if I can find one. It was not very stylish, but its been on there for over 25 years so far so I must have done something right.
 
Yep, 205. My transmission crossmember makes re-installing the torque rod impossible, so I need to address it in some way.
 
Your explanation worked fine for me. Working in welding/fab job shops made it easy to interpret what a customer wanted when they didn't have pictures or whatever.

Interesting idea/way to do it. :thinking:
 
Well...I went out there all motivated to build one of these things, got everything lined up, a design in my head, grinder plugged in, welder fired up...and the piece of tube I have is 1 3/4 .188 wall. Need .120 wall for the bushing. :doah: Dammit.
 
I think that a fabricated support would be better all of the way around. I have seen the factory side mount cracked at the ends of the angle pieces. Granted, it may take decades to do that. I have also seen the bellhousing bolt broken from the torque rod.
 
Well how about that! It was in the garage all day today, too! I will get some pics tomorrow!
 
I would assume the design of the factory ones is more to hold it fore and aft, and pretty forgiving up and down?

Martin
 
82355 said:
I would assume the design of the factory ones is more to hold it fore and aft, and pretty forgiving up and down?

Martin
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curious too
This has been talked about in some detail already. The idea of a side mount twisting with the frame just doesn't add up to me. Though, I modified my factory rod and used a 1/4" plate to space it down when I clocked the case. I wanted the rod for sure.....didn't like the idea of going to the frame.



now maybe for a PTO or something like that, but I don't have any experience with that stuff
 
Since mine is a driver side drop, my support that I built for the 205 is fairly short. Even if the frame twisted slightly it would not exceed the amount of allowable movement I built into the mount.

Plus, in addition to the weight of the 205 hanging off the transmission, I have a cast iron PTO gearbox and a large, heavy, hydraulic pump attached to the transfer case. For me, the addition of a support to the frame did not seem so much an option as a necessity.
 
The one that was factory installed on my old 72 was definitely torsional support. Simply an L bracket off the boss on the side of the 205, sandwiched to a set of poly bushings on the frame. Im sure there was weight carrying ability, but with it off the side of the case, only minimally so.
 
I think this may show the whole design, but let me know if you are curious about some other view.

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I saw one on a '75 that had cracked by the bolt flange at the t-case. I wondered if a small diagonal in between the bolts would help. But who knows what that truck had gone through in its life.
 
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